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- Apr 20, 2023, 7:22am
- ☀️ 17 °C
- Altitude: 774 ft
- South AfricaMpumalangaNkomaziMarloth Park25°20’45” S 31°47’41” E
Last Day In Marloth Park
April 20, 2023 in South Africa ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
This morning I was up first at 6am, closely followed by Pete. Our original plan for today was to stay at the house until mid morning then head into lionspruit game reserve just behind Marloth Park.
Ellie got up at 7am and then we were joined by a bushbuck and a Kudu for breakfast and we fed them sweet potatoes and the pellets we had brought from the game shop. It’s lovely being so close to the animals. At 10am we popped to the shops and on the way we found the biggest chameleon we had ever seen, Pete picked him up from the middle of the road and gave him to Ellie. Then he crawled up her arm and luckily we found a tree to drop him off in before he got to her hair.
At midday we decided to head to the Tin shack Mozambique restaurant where Ellie and I had steak and Pete had a chicken and cheese wors sausage.
After that we headed back to the house and then Pete went for a lay down and Ellie and I sat in the garden feeding a Kudu by hand. The kudu had a veracious appetite and ate half the bag of sweet potatoes and kept on giving us the guilt look every time it ran out. In the end we decided to go for a walk to the tourist office just to see what else was on offer and when we got back from the walk an hour later the kudu was asleep behind the splash pool but soon woke up when she heard us opened the door and then started giving us the guilt look again. I gave her a couple more sweet potatoes and then Pete came back downstairs from his nap and he was hand feeding her for ages.
By now it was getting late and I realised we weren’t going to get to go into the lionspruit game reserve or go back to the Kruger and I was slightly disappointed.
For our last sunset here we decided to drive to the hide on Seekoei Street and see if we could see any animals but except for a few elephants far off in the distance we didn’t see anything but the sunset was amazing.
At 6pm we arrived back at the house to find that the load shedding was back in effect and there was no power which also meant no water because the pump to get water from the ground is also electric. Today the power has been off more than on and it is a nightmare when you take power for granted although being in such a sunny country there’s no reason not to have solar installed and out here it is relatively cheap so that is another reason to hate this little house we’re staying in.
At 7pm Pete cooked us a meal of Kudu and Impala Wors Sausage in cheese topped rolls and it was delicious as usual. Then we sat in the garden listening to the hyena howling while bushbuck and kudu ate the sweet potatoes from the feeding station. It was a very cool last night in Marloth Park.Read more