Last Day in The Kruger

We were up at 5:15am. Our original plan for today was to do a little game drive, then head into Malalane for some meat and then come back and pack up but I decided against that when I got up.
After a couple of coffees we started packing up, we brushed the awning down to get the worst of the stuff that had fallen out of the trees off and once that was done it was just 15 minutes until we were completely done. We said goodbye to our neighbours and at 7:15am we left Berg en Dahl camp for the last time.
We could have turned right at the end of the tar road and gone straight out of the Malalane gate and down the N4. That would have taken about an hour to do the 51km journey but instead we turned left instead driving 60km to Skukuza camp where we stopped at 11am for breakfast then another 20km to a right hand turn then another 60km to crocodile bridge gate. All at 35kph or slower and that got us to Marloth Park at exactly 2pm. The only thing we saw on route of any significance was some hyena that had managed to bring down a buffalo and were eating it about 50 meters off the roadside in some bushes so we couldn’t really see that. We also saw a few baby animals.
Marloth park now feels like home and this really marks the end of this trip. Ellie had found us a quirky little place to stay in called Kiburi Cottage and the owners are quite quirky too and they live in the house next door. There’s 2 car ports so we unhooked the trailer and pushed that under one and put the car under the other. Once that was done the owners let us in and he stayed with us for the next 90 minutes drinking beer and smoking. He definitely has issues of the mental kind but he’s harmless. There’s also a resident warthog with 3 babies. Her name is Bella.
Once we were alone we went up to daisies den to get some game food and went straight back to start feeding the animals whilst I jumped in the cuddle puddle.
At 5pm it started to rain and I lit the Braai. Within 10 minutes it was helling it down with rain. Fortunately we had an undercover section and used our Braai. The rain only lasted an hour but soaked everything and once we had washed up we watched an amazing after the storm sunset. Then I put the trap camera outside.
Back inside we were watching tv and decided we should put some yogurt out for the bush babies and I put a big dollop on a spoon and went to put it on a little platform out the back and realised they were waiting for me. I put the yogurt on the platform and got within 6 inches of them. I’ve never been so close. We watched them for a while pinging about in the trees after there yogurt and then we went in for the night to try and stay up later to reset our body clocks.Læs mere