Monday 15 June 2009

Sorry that last entry got a little muddled! After the game drive we went back to camp to find a bull elephant shaking the huge camel thorn trees around us to get the seed pods - they love them!

Had a fab dinner and then went for an early morning game drive the next morning. We managed to get the leopard again and also a honey badger which was cool. Now we can carry on with the Linyanti story....

Well how are we going to get out of this one Mr Allen??? After several attempts we unhooked the trailer and winched the car out first. Then we had to winch the trailer out. After about an hour we were back on track again and I had even found some great firewood as well!

Then further along the track we got stuck again, Clint said to let the tyre pressure down and it worked this time. But alas we got stuck again further on - more air was let out of the tyres, but unfortunately it didn't work this time. We had to winch the whole unit this time and once it started going on its own Martin had to keep going until he got to hard ground again. Meanwhile Clint quickly unhooked the winch from the other cable and ran ahead of Martin, my job was to jump out of the car at the bush where the second strap and D clamp had been left!

I managed to finally get the strap off the tree and ran along behind although the car was out of sight by now. We had great fun (not really I hate getting stuck and it was really hot as well) - just pleased that there were not any hungry predators around that morning! We finally made it to Linyanti which is a stunning campsite overlooking the river into Namibia.

Back soon xx

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