Kalahari Trails Day 4

I was up at 6am. We’d had more rain in the night and there was a breeze this morning although it was a warm one. Checking the thermometer it was already 26°c in the shade and we’d had 6mm of rain overnight.
It was moving day today and we were moving from the tree camp to the eco camp just a kilometre over the sand dunes and by 8am we were packed up and ready to leave.
We drove 10 minutes over the sand dunes and reversed into a pitch at the eco camp. Then we unhitched and levelled out, pulled the tarp over the top and popped up the caravan. Then we staked the tarp down. It was alot of work to do in a short amount of time and by 9:30am it was 30°c in the shade and 35°c in the sun. Today the sun was angry.
After a quick cold drink we headed over to the dunes to see what the aardvark had been upto but he looked like he’d barricaded himself in his burrow. There was a second entrance a little further down so we moved the camera down to there and went back to camp. It was now midday and 35°c in the shade and 43°c in the sun with a very warm wind. This new camp doesn’t seem to have any cool spots except for the shower.
By 2pm I’d already had 2 cold showers, then at 2:30km I just decided to go the whole hog and shower in my shorts and shirt. The breeze when I came out was quite refreshing.
At 3pm we went up to the house and finally the meerkats came up to see us. It was mum and around 12 babies of varying ages. They stayed around the house with us for ages and even though they are wild one sat on my foot and Ellie got some great selfies.
The new people that were supposed to be in our camp turned up around 4:30pm and said they actually needed power so there was no need for us to move and they are camped 2 places down from us.
We headed back to camp at 5:15pm and started dinner and straight away. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky and it didn’t look like rain for a change but we wanted to get dinner done as the weather could change any moment.
By 7:30pm dinner was done and so was the washing up. There was still a warm breeze but it was starting to cool and we headed in for the night hoping that tonight we would catch our aardvark on the camera.Læs mere