Monday 26th November
Left White Lady about 8.30 am after ignoring all the advise not to do the off road trip we’d planned. The staff at the lodge were horrified that we planned this particular route. So we set off, on it! All was good, lovely views, quiet, sunshine….. until we reached Land Cruiser Hill! As soon as I saw it I realised why it was called that. A hill in deep sand. We tried five times to get over it, each time Paul getting more frustrated! Eventually the brain took over and we retraced our steps for 6km. After that we saw a few sandy hills ahead, but we managed all of them. A route of 100km took us three and a half hours……slow going. We needed diesel, so we took the long way to our nights stop via Khorixas. Filled up the tanks, bought more water which was running low and decided to put them in the back of the vehicle BUT we couldn’t open the back door. After two hours and the help of Gabriel at his ‘garage’ and 500ND later we had a fixed door but a hole in our gauze fly netting! The only way in! We think the lock was faulty and during our off road experience, it had locked itself from the inside. Now we are in Aabadi Camp, the only punters again. Simple ablutions, most of which are falling down or not serviceable! Wild camping at its best! Paul just walked down to the river bed to see baboons, d’assise (Rock rabbits), francolins, but was really looking for elephants. We haven’t seen desert elephant yet, but hope to in the next few days
