Marloth Park Day 3

Even though we went to bed later I was up at 4:45am. The storm last night was incredible and the power never came back on so the room felt stuffy. The first thing I did was open the back door to let fresh air in and I could really feel it. I put the kettle on quietly went out the back to grab the trap camera and Patrick our host was already up. He saw me and started talking and that was it, I couldn’t get away as he rambled on about Genets, trap cameras, different trap cameras and where he put them, then bush babies then back to genets and the kettle was whistling away and I saw Ellie run past the kitchen door in her night dress to turn the gas off. Now everyone was up.
I managed to get rid of Patrick after 20 minutes but my head was already spinning and I hadn’t even had a coffee yet.
At 8:30am we decided to head to Malalane to get some storage bags to free up some of our ammo boxes on the way we could see that power wasn’t going to be restored anytime soon. There were atleast 5 trees laying across the power lines and men were out with chainsaws already. . The first place we went was Mr Price but it was the PEP home store where we got everything except moisture catchers.
We got back to the cottage at 11am and rearranged the boxes putting all of our clothes and soft stuff into the vacuum bags and then rolling them to get all of the air out.
After that the hay we ordered turned up and I helped break it up before the zebra came in. We sat and watched as more animals came in. The zebra and antelope wanted to eat it and the pigs wanted to roll in it.
Once we had watched all the animals for a couple of hours we headed out for me to get some Biltong and to speak to an estate agent then we went back to the cottage for the rest of the day.
Patrick and his wife came around at 5pm to check if we were ok with no power and they stayed for 45 minutes which was a nightmare. Then I finally lit the Braai, made burgers and we had dinner.
After dinner we put out the banana and the little bush baby came out almost straight away then I put out the chicken guts and sat outside to wait for the genet but I got a surprise.
After waiting 30 minutes I heard the trees moving to my right but couldn’t see what it was. Then the big galago bush baby walked across the little wall right in front of me.
I shone the torch through the window to try and get Ellie’s attention and she came out. There he was licking the feeding table where the banana had been.
Ellie ran in and got some banana and I threw it up and he grabbed it in both hands, then when he’d finished those pieces he looked like he wanted more so ellie ran back in and grabbed another banana, peeled it and held it upto him and he took it straight out of her hand. It was incredible we even caught it on video.
After the bushbabies the warthogs came back so I had to move the camera and the chicken guts to our side of the wall and hope to catch the genet.Læs mere