Winterdodgers Day 2

Ellie and I were up at 6am and we went up to the new house and waited to be joined by everyone else.
Pete and Cam were next bringing Millie and Come Here with them.
Pete suggested we take a field walk with a guy Called Beatrice. A local medicine man and he would tell us all about the local plants and what they are used for. I did say I wasn’t bothered and we had to go to the shop and at 10am Ellie and I headed up to Mbozwana to refill the car and check on what food we might get to take with us when we leave.
We got back at 12pm and we had decided to have a Power Nap when Pete came down and said Beatrice was here to take us in a walk. I was very annoyed but we put on our sensible walking shoes and headed off across the fields to look at plants. Beatrice had 2 very thick books with him about trees and plants and they were heavy as I found out when I was tasked with carrying them.
We would stop every 5 minutes for Beatrice to tell us about a plant he had seen and what they would use it for. Then he would spend another 5 minutes at least trying to find that plant in one of the 2 books to show us what the fruit looks like.
We were out for nearly 3 hours and I was bored rigid and I didn’t want to be walking in the fields because last time we did that we got fleas and ticks and Ellie got really ill. To top it off we obviously had to pay for the privilege and it cost us a whopping 300 rand. That’s £25. I was really annoyed but we had fed this guy for a couple of weeks. After the walk we took Hilape back home and she showed us her house. She was so pleased with the front door we had got her 2 years ago. It is fitted and now she even has 2 windows and even a TV. She was very pleased to show us.
Back at camp we chilled for an hour before everyone headed out for a sunset drive and to steal some bricks from an old lodge that had been dismantled years ago. We took some beers and it was an amazing sunset.
Back at camp we headed over to Pete’s original house for dinner and then we went back over to the new place for drinks. By 8pm everyone was heading to their beds and it was throwing it down with rain. I had to carry Ellie back to our camp because of the frogs. Czytaj więcej