Our first game drive - Lionspruit

I’d hardly slept atall, I had a sore throat and a banging headache that made me feel sick most of the night. So much so that I got up at 4am and took some ibuprofen. That did help but no sooner had I fallen asleep then it was time to wake up.
I sat in the chair at 6:30am surrounded by warthogs. I did feel like death warmed up but it was still cool.
By 7:30am we were dressed and after a cold shower I did feel much better, Ellie had a quick breakfast and by 8:30am we were in the car. Today was going to be our first game drive in ghost, and we were going to lionspruit wildlife refuge in Marloth Park.
It was only a mile away from where camp was and we paid our £6 entry fee for the both of us and the lady opened the gate and we entered.
Lionspruit isn’t a massive park, it probably only covers 15 square miles but it’s big enough to house 2 leopards, 1 male lion called Monty, 3 white rhino, buffalo, Wilderbeast, Warthog , zebra, giraffe, and thousands of impala.
We decided to cover the park in a clockwise direction and went to Impala Dam first of all which was void of all wildlife. From there we drove to the gravel pit and found the zebra, on the way out of the gravel pit we encountered a rhino. He came straight out of the bushes and walked straight across the front of the car.
As we continued we came across giraffe, warthog wallowing in a mud hole, more zebra and and rhino.
Ghost handled the terrain beautifully and we even had to put it in 4 wheel drive twice to get through some boggy areas.
We left Lionspruit at 11:30am and after a quick run to the shop we went back to camp for a salad lunch.
At 1pm we decided to head to the swimming pool to cool down in the 34°c heat. It really was roasting today and it’s set to get hotter. After a 30 minute swim and having cooled down nicely as we were about to get out an old German guy entered the pool and Ellie greeted him. He said hello back and then proceeded to give us his 85 year life story from when he moved to South Africa at the age of 35.
It was a nightmare. We finally left the pool at 5pm. Neither of us had ever looked so wrinkly and even though it was still 30°c we were now cold.
We walked back to camp and once dressed I did a couple of my Spanish lessons then we had dinner.
After that we fed the bushbucks and mongoose that had arrived at camp whilst we watched the sunset.
Then when it was dark at 7:30pm we headed into the gnu to watch tv for a while before going to sleep. Tomorrow is moving day.Read more