Mata Mata

We were up at 6:30am and today was moving day and we had quite a big drive ahead of us.
We packed up, said goodbye to Marellie and the meerkats in the pen and left at 8:15am. We hadn’t caught the aardvark again.
Our next stop was back to kgalagadi and we stopped at Twee Rivieren to check back in and I deflated the tyres on the car and the caravan this time aswell.
We left Twee Rivieren at 9:30am and we took the first half of our 80 mile trip quite slowly until the sun came out and once we saw the birds taking shelter we knew it was hot. We stopped at some baby owlets in a tree and we also saw our first giraffe and 2 Jackal, but no cats.
We finally arrived at Mata Mata rest camp at 12:40pm, checked in and found ourselves a nice little spot under a big camel thorn tree. We were inundated with ground squirrels literally as soon as we got out the car. I bent down to take a photo and one of them grabbed my phone. They are very tame.
Once we had pitched the trailer we had lunch and the squirrels came back and the kept begging and putting their front paws out. Obviously we gave them some crusts from our bread.
After lunch we went to check out the shop and then walked over the border into Namibia. There used to be a padstal in no man’s land but apparently that has shut. Then we went to check out the hide and watering hole which looked amazing so we might go back there tonight.
Back at camp we just chilled for the rest of the afternoon until it was time to light the Braai.
After dinner and washing up and as the sun set we headed over to the hide and watering hole. We spotted a Genet but it was too dark to photograph it. We also saw a few nightjars darting about catching insects.
We headed back to camp just after 8pm in the dark and climbed into the caravan for the night, tomorrow was going to be an early start.Read more