Martin & Clint in the boat at our campsite at Chief's Island.

We got up next morning and had coffee and rusks, then packed up for the return journey back to the boat station.

From Mboma we carried on through to Khwai for our next two nights. Loads of elephants on the way. Unexpected noise coming from car/trailer ... after checking it out we found that the weight of the trailer (bloody heavy) and the Botswanan road (very up and down and bumpy) had played havoc with the bumper. It had started to tear the steel bumper off the car!!!

The decision was made to drop the trailer at the game scouts post and make the journey back to Maun to get it repaired. Martin asked if I wanted to stay.. excuse me, but not safe - I am still trying to get him to think Africa and not UK. We all set off for Maun. We had some crackers and cheese in the little cooler bag which I was able to dish out to us all along the way - lunch on the run.

On arrival in Maun we went straight to Nico the man who could fix our problem. It seemed that it had done alot more damage than we first thought - had bent part of the chassis and we were lucky to make it to the game scout post at all. Nico managed to get his boys to repair it enough so that we could continue on with the trip. We also discussed him redoing the whole thing once we finished with Clint - a big job which will reinforce the whole thing.

Back soon xxx