Winterdodgers Day 3

We got up at 6am. It was raining but very warm which made it humid.
Our plan for today was to go to Tembe Elephant park but it had rained hard all night and the swamp roads would be flooded so we decided the moment we got up that it would be a lazy day.
When Pete came down at 7am with Come Here, he agreed the weather was to bad and suggested another walk with Beatrice but I would rather have stuck pins in my eyes and we made the excuse of having to go shopping because we were leaving tomorrow.
After we’d showered and sorted ourselves out we headed up to Mobozwana to get some shopping for the next few days. The 8 miles of sandy tracks were unbelievably boggy and slippery and it was really slow going. We spent 2 hours in town before heading back and Pete asked if I’d had to put it in four wheel drive to get out but I hadn’t.
For the rest of the day it was just me, Ellie, Pete and Cam and we just sat up at the new house drinking coffee and watching the rain. Some of it was very heavy and it was constant.
At 4:30pm the beers came out and then Steve the Marlin Fisherman came up to give us more stories of the sea. It doesn’t matter what we were talking about he could always turn it back to sea fishing. Then he said he always knew what the weather would be like for the next 3 days and Jason asked if his bald head was a barometer.
Pete and Cam cooked a great meal of Pork Chops and vegetables with Pap. Pete even cut the fat off and made crackling. Then we had carrot cake for dinner.
Once dinner was done at 8pm Pete said he was going to bed and I said the same. I could not listen to another fishing story.


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