Maroela Rest Camp Day 8

Today we were up at 6am but the hyena had tried getting us up earlier with a lot of whooping right next to the tent. We had decided not to do a game drive but head back to Hoodspruit instead and get some shopping after yesterdays quiet day.
We left camp at 8:30am and didn’t see much on the way to Orpen gate. I refilled our tyres back upto pressure at the petrol station on the exit gate and then it was a 70 kilometre drive to Hoodspruit.
Our first stop of the day was the Midas store for cars where we tried getting 2 more gas struts for the back of the car and after fitting 2 and realising they didn’t work which took 30 minutes we finally went to the spar.
In the Spar we got fresh produce and enough meat for 5 days of dinners. Then it was back in the car and to the petrol station to get diesel before heading home.
We got back to camp at 12:30pm and had a short chat with our older neighbours Henny and Mimpy. Some of the South Africa names are weird. The guy on the exit gate is called Silence and the guy in the office is called Comfort.
We were going to have a quick nap but new people were coming in and one pitched up right next to us and made a lot of noise setting up so we just chilled for the afternoon.
The hyena were scarce today until much later in the day when 2 walked past and they had big fat bellies. They had obviously eaten well last night and that’s what all the calling was about first thing this morning.
For dinner I did the best burgers that any restaurant would have charged a fortune for and after washing up we sat and watched a great sunset and at 7:30pm we went in for the night to watch TV.Baca lagi