Botsalano Game Reserve Day 2

We had a great nights sleep and woke up at 6am. I tried to stay in bed longer but couldn’t so I just got up made coffee and then Ellie joined me and we wandered down the road looking for footprints.
After a couple of coffees I decided to fit our new lights on the outside of the trailer which didn’t take that long and while the glue was setting we decided to go for a game drive.
We left camp at 8:30am and it’s creepy, daunting and a little scary knowing that nobody else is in this park and we have 26 square miles all to ourselves. If anything happens to us nobody would know for days.
In this reserve there are kudu, impala, bushbuck, zebra, white rhino, jackal, giraffe and many other things that shouldn’t hurt us. There are no real predators and the reserve is mainly for breeding antelope to supply other reserves and for white rhino breeding.
We were primarily looking for the rhino on our game drive but we decided to check out the other camp sites and the first one we found in the centre of the reserve was far nicer than ours but wouldn’t have been as private if the reserve was busy. It also had water in its JoJo tank.
We drove on and the next campsite was a tented bush camp overlooking a huge lake. This looked like something out of a horror film as it was so run down and you could just see a bunch of teenagers getting slashed to pieces in the middle of the night so we didn’t stay there too long.
We left the tented camp and continued animal spotting and about 200 meters outside of the tented camp we spotted something through the bush veld. I thought it was buffalo laying down but Ellie was looking closer and thought it was hartebeest. She looked through the binoculars but she couldn’t tell so I got out of the car and wandered into the clearing and it was covered in heads of wildebeest. There were a few legs here and there but no bodies mainly heads and I counted close to 100 and they were in various states of decay. It was super creepy and weird.
Back in the car we continued our game drive spotting Blesbok, hartebeest, Dyker, impala and kudu, but no rhino. It took us hours going at a super slow pace only getting the car into second gear, but we had a real explore and decided that our camp was pretty good after all.
Back at camp I fitted the last light, then fitted our new seat organisers and cleaned the inside of the car. We now have a lot more space for stuff in the car.
This took us upto 4:30pm and we chilled for 30 minutes until we lit the Braai just after 5pm and I made burgers. We’d also gathered lots of wood on our game drive and just before it got dark we lit a big fire which kept us warm as it still wasn’t very warm with a top temperature today of just 22°c.Read more