Golden Gate Day 3

We were up at just before 6:30am thanks to a car driving through the campsite belonging to one of the workers. I got up first and made coffees then Ellie joined me.
Ellie’s heel hurt this morning so our plans for a big hike went out the window but at 9:30am we drove up to the Vulture hide to see if there were any vultures.
There was a carcass on the ground of some antelope but it hadn’t been opened so we waited. In fact we waited until 12:30pm and nothing came.
From the vulture hide we went back to Clarens to get an extra days food and some lunch and then drive back to the national park and ate lunch at the same picnic area as yesterday. Ellie found a porcupine quill so we decided we would come back when it was dark to look for porcupines.
After lunch we went back to camp for a cup of tea and then we drove back up to the vulture hide. It was now 3:30pm and the carcass was still intact but there were a herd of Roan Antelope nearby so we passed the time watching them.
At 4:15pm we gave up and went back to camp. It had been a lovely sunny day here for a change but now as the evening drew in the heat was leaving camp and we lit the Braai ready for dinner and to keep warm.i cooked a Texas Prime steak on the fire with Garlic bread and it was delicious and cooked to perfection. After we washed up we headed back down to the picnic area at 7pm to see if there were any porcupines.
Unfortunately there weren’t any porcupines but there was lots of lightning and it was as creepy as so we went back to camp only to find that it had been inundated with tents. They had completely surrounded the toilet block like it was some kind of siege so we had to walk 50 meters down the road and then back up a pathway just to use the toilets. It was also 8pm and they had only just lit the fire for a Braai so it was going to be a long night.Read more