Maselspoort resort and conference center

It rained heavens hard last night and just as we got in bed a huge storm broke. That put an end to the Braai the tent life wankers were doing and soon the rain was so hard it drowned the sound of them out and by 10pm they had gone to bed.
However, they did get up at 5:30am this morning and were banging car doors and then talking loudly, there was about 20 of them and one of them kept laughing really annoyingly. I just wanted to smash his face in and so did Ellie. By 6am the whole campsite was up thanks to these total selfish arseholes. Fortunately we are leaving today.
The tent life wankers went in there hike at 8am so Ellie and I ran through there camp and showered. Then we packed up and by 9am we were ready to roll. We said goodbye to our South African neighbours and then went across the road to diesel up, then I set the sat nav and we left.
It was a 185 mile drive to our next camp and it was a comfortable pace travelling most of the way at 70mph with not too many lunatic drivers. Our only hold up were the 2 lots of roadworks that said there would be a +/- 20 min wait please be patient. We just switched the engine off but it wasn’t quite 20 minutes at either stop.
We got to our next camp at 1pm and it’s called the Maselspoort Resort & Conference Centre and the last 6 miles getting in were on unmade washboard gravel roads. I’m glad we got a 4x4 trailer.
The Maselspoort Resort & Conference Centre has a huge campsite of 156 pitches, it has 4 swimming pools, 3 with slides and flumes, 50 rondavels to sleep in and a hostel aswell as a restaurant, cafe and of course the conference Center. We are the only ones camping so we have a 156 pitch site all to ourselves, our own private washrooms on our pitch and we are right next to the swimming pool. It’s crazy that the place is even open, it allows day visitors but there are only about 10 cars here all using the other pools with slides for there kids. The cafe is open but nobody is in it and the restaurant is laid out beautifully with 150 tables all with fine dining wear on them and it is Totally empty.
We set up camp and then had ghosty toastys for lunch. It was 30°c and I cracked open a beer and then went in the pool. It was freezing but refreshing. After a quick dip we went for a walk around starting off with wandering down the river which is behind us then following the river all the way up to the Maselspoort Dam and the restaurant. The whole site is massive and in the centre there is a water recycling station which recycles all water on site.
Back at camp I went for another quick dip on my own while Ellie checked in with Ben and once I was out I lit the Braai and we had wors, fresh corn on the cob and potato salad. While dinner was cooking we spotted a couple of rock hyrax and a slender mongoose so are leftovers were put on a plate and when it got dark at 7:30pm we headed down the other end of the campsite where there is some long grass and we put the food down and set a trap camera. It would be great if a porcupine came. But we don’t even know if they are here.
At 8:30pm we went in to the caravan, it’s much warmer here so we will have the fans on again.Read more