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After all our packing up last night to have a little lay in this morning, Mr zips next door with his conqueror caravan was up at 4:30am dismantling his setup. His caravan must have been a zip it together caravan as there were more zips on there than we could count. While they were dismantling and draining the water off of there awning Ellie and I got our chairs out of the boot and drank coffee. Then we had another.
I washed the cups up and said in 10 minutes I want us ready to leave. And we put the cooker and kettle away, closed the kitchen door, dropped our bed compartment on the front and lowered the roof. Then we hooked up and were ready within the 10 minutes. Mr Zips was still getting pegs out of the ground.
We left Mata Mata at 5:37am. Earlier than I thought but we had missed the morning rush so we took a slow drive of 35kph.
We stopped at the wildcats and got some shots of them playing as they were up and actually on the floor. Then we drove into every water hole and as just as we got to the 13th waterhole 3 cheetah walked across the pan to the waters edge. We couldn’t believe our luck as only one car was there and we got right next to the waterhole while the cheetah drank. These are once in a lifetime photo moments and we stayed for about 10 minutes just watching and photographing it really was unbelievable the time we had with them.
After the cheetah we came across a spotted eagle owl in a low branch and just as we were about to leave we spotted its chicks on a lower branch in full view. Another special moment.
After the owls I spotted a dust cloud being kicked up behind some long grass and saw some cape foxes but the grass was too high to get photos. For a transfer day we had, had probably our best sightings ever.
We arrived at Twee Rivieren at 11:30am and within 30 minutes we’d pitched camp. Then we went and fueled the car up and then we went to the restaurant for brunch.
After lunch we went to the shop and grabbed a Wors for tomorrows dinner and some fresh bread and once all that was done we decided to head to the pool as it was 38°c in the shade and 46°c in the sun.
We got back to camp at 3pm and that’s where we stayed until 7:15pm when we took a walk to the hide the other side of camp. We didn’t see anything at the water hole but in the way back we saw our first scorpion and quite a few weird bugs.We got back to the caravan at 8:30pm and climbed into bed ready for our final kalahari game drive tomorrow.Read more