A Trip to Neilspruit

I didn’t have much sleep last night. I had a sore throat, I forgot to put my earplugs in and we left the windows open on the tent so when the sun came up at 5am we were blinded but I was already awake from the dawn chorus. So at 6am I was up and sitting on the chairs looking over the Kruger.
Our plan for today was to head to Neilspruit for the stuff we were missing. We also needed to swap our duvet out for a much lighter one. So at 9am we left our camp site but our first stop was the gas shop in Marloth park to get a bottle of gas. Here we brought a 3kg bottle and they filled it while we waited, then we headed the 60 miles into Neilspruit. We had been there before to visit the outdoor warehouse and the camping stores but our first stop was a little retail park with a few clothes shops that seemed very, very black so we did 1 circuit and then left and headed straight for the outdoor warehouse. This area isn’t predominantly white but you can tell by the cars in the car park that it’s far more respectable.
Once we had parked we visited the outdoor warehouse, for some magnets to hang stuff, the it was to the sportsman’s warehouse to get me some trainer socks, then we popped into a hardware store to get a spirit level and some Allen keys to rehang the door on the trailer and make sure we’re level when we park. After that we popped into the spar for 2 more days of food shopping and then it was back home.
All in all it was a 120 mile trip but we think we have got everything to continue our adventure and when we got home it was 3pm. The day had run away from us again.
When we had unpacked everything we popped over to the swimming pool to cool off in the 33°c heat. When we swimming there was a cloudburst and everyone else got out, which was weird as they were already wet. Ellie and I just stayed in the pool until it stopped raining.
We got back to camp at 5pm and Ellie made a salad whilst the warthogs came and laid around our pitch and under the car. There were 2 mums and 8 babies and once the babies had eaten there fill they just laid on there side and passed out. Then they would wake up and jump up and start eating again.
Once dinner was done we watched the sunset over the Kruger and when it got dark we could hear the lions chuffing. It was super cool. Czytaj więcej