Ballito

We got up at 6am. It had rained all night and the gnu had leaked because we were on the piss, we even had to sleep in the other bed. I made a coffee on the gas stove in the rain and then we went up to the house and Pete was already there and said “ you looked like you were really enjoying yourself making coffee in the rain, so I didn’t offer to make you one”
Typical Pete.
We had a couple of coffees and then I went down to undo all the electrics whilst it still rained and then when there was a break in the weather Ellie and I quickly packed up. By 9am we were ready.
We headed back up to the house and had a coffee and then started our goodbyes, we gave Hilapè a hug and promised to see her next year, marco and Ludwig came up to say goodbye with Jason but we had to head down to the old house to say goodbye to captain Steve and find Millie the cat. Then it was a hug for Cam and Pete walked us out. This would be our last time of seeing Pete for atleast a year. We said we would look forward to seeing how it is next time we come gave him a hug and then we put the car in four wheel drive and left.
The 8 miles of sandy lanes to get back to Mbozwana were unbelievable. The car did so well to pull us through mud, sand and puddles that came over the windscreen. It was a real driving test to get out.
We stopped in town for some snacks and then we set the sat nav and left.
It was 189 miles and 4 hours of driving and most of it was in the N2. We stopped 3/4 of the way in for a nature break and some milkshake’s at some services and then it was duel carriage way the last 70 miles and at 2:30pm we arrived at the Dolphin Resort in Ballito.
We had been warned off of Ballito by the same number of people that had said go there, so we were slightly apprehensive but getting into the town was easy and our new campsite is beautiful. We were greeted by a lovely lady at reception who said we could walk around and find our pitch first. Once we had found our pitch we had 2 workers who wanted to help pitch our trailer but we said we were fine, and when we were pitching the trailer a lady came over with tea and scones for us.
Once we were settled in we headed over to the tea terrace and Ellie caught up her social media and I went swimming. I think it was probably more of a decontamination after leaving Pete’s and the wetlands. Both our feet our black.
At 5:30pm we had salad for dinner and then watched a guy a couple of camps over defend his territory from vervet monkeys. There is something insanely funny about watching a middle aged man fight monkeys.
As the sun started to set at 7pm, it was still windy and much fresher here and as we settled into the trailer we were hoping for a good nights sleep.Læs mere