Pearson Park Resort

Our power started to run out at half past midnight and Ellie got up to unplug the fridge. At the same time a huge storm broke above us and it raged for the rest of the night.
When I got up at 6:30am the rain was sheeting across the campsite and pouring off of our tent and awning like a waterfall. Luckily the tent and under the awning was dry and u made coffee whilst watching the fork lightning. The thunder was the loudest we had ever heard.
We were leaving camp today and unlike several other campers who were packing up in the rain with hardly any clothes on we decided to wait and finally at 9:30am the rain stopped just long enough for us to pack up. Almost as soon as we had hooked up and leaving the pitch the heavens opened again. We took the 12km drive back to the main gate and just before we got there a bat eared fox ran across the road in front of us. We both shouted at the same time and as we tracked it 3 others came into view and just stood there staring at us. We had been so lucky to see them.
It was a165 mile journey down the N10 and then the N2 all the way to the coast. This is as far south as we can drive and after this we turn westwards heading for Cape Town but we are still a couple of weeks away from that point yet.
We reached todays destination of Pearson Park Resort at 1:45pm and the owner checked us in but because the campsite is so far away she advised us to get our shopping first so we turned around and headed to the quick spar a few hundred meters back and brought shopping for 3 days, then we returned to the resort and were buzzed through the electronic gates. It must have been a 2km drive to the camp down a sand road and it is huge and we are the only ones here. We have a beautiful spot right on the edge of a tidal river and the beach is a 1.5km hike away but we can see the sea. We are surrounded by huge white sand dunes and it doesn’t look or feel like Africa. More like the Spanish coastline.
We pitched camp and ate our macaroni cheese we had just brought in the spar and then we took a walk up to the beach where I had a dip but the current is way to strong to swim. After that we came back to camp and then at 5:30pm we made a chicken salad and we gave the chicken skin to the mongoose running around the place and sat there watching them for half an hour.
As the sun set the temperature dropped, and we had to put our jumpers on. Then for the rest of the evening we sat under the awning watching the sky change colour and the stars come out.Read more