Camp 1 - Marloth Park

Camp 1 Marloth Park
I had, had a pretty good nights sleep last night thanks to some sleeping tablets but unfortunately Ellie hadn’t but we got up at 8am and started loading the car.
I reversed onto the trailer and we hooked up with no problems and just after 9am we left the Bushman’s Rock Country Hotel and our first stop was the hardware store for some gas line and hose clips and some spray oil. Then it was back to the Chinese shop for some ratchet straps and bungees and then it was back to the outdoor warehouse for a few bits we forgot yesterday.
That took us to 10:35sm and then we left Pretoria for the 4.5 hour trip of 260 miles to head to Marloth Park.
Being a Sunday the roads were pretty quiet and once we left the Pretoria ring road which is a free for all motorway, we got onto the N4 and it was quieter and duelled most of the way. And it was a straight run. Ghost drove beautifully and pulled the Gnu like it wasn’t there.
We stopped about 1/3 of the way in at the services called Alko which has an adjoining wildlife park with rhino, ostrich, impala, zebra and s few other animals. It was packed with people but there was loads of parking and a security guard stood watch over our car while we went in for a nature break and something to eat.
Back on the road we had another 150 miles ahead of us and it was plain sailing right up until the last 30 miles where it turns into single lane carriageway and there’s loads of coal trucks.
We finally got to Marloth Park campsite at 3:30pm and it felt like we were back home. We know this place intimately now and love it. We levelled the trailer off and within 30 minutes we had the majority of the trailer ready. It’s hard to know how long it really took because we had to move all of our clothes into it and set the awning up which didn’t take long but it was a new process.
By 5:30pm we were sitting down on our new chairs, drinking beer and watching zebras and waterbok go down to the river to drink and listening to the hippos chuckling in the Kruger national park opposite. We had impala behind us and lots of warthog with there babies mooching around. It was great. We really felt like we had made a dream come true.
After dinner of Braai rolls we just sat and watched the sun set, it was amazing.En savoir plus