After breakfast we headed into Etosha Park. I expected it to be like a bigger version of the pans in the Central Kalahari but due to the thick vegetation it looked more like the Kruger in the middle of summer. Gray has travelled through this area many times, in his army days and on holiday and he has never seen it so green and luscious. We nearly missed a lion lying in the long grass about 1m from the road (fortunately a parks board vehicle had stopped in front of us).
The plains were teaming with springbok and ostriches; we saw some general game and a monitor lizard. The roads, in places, were full of major puddles (making our Limpopo River crossings look like child’s play) and our Disco is now clay colour and the wheels caked in mud.
A great drive and all in all Plan B has worked out pretty well.
We returned to the lodge, thankful for the pool after a long drive. We are having such fun playing all the ‘old games’ – piggy in the middle and pool polo. In the evenings Robs and I play board games – we have become addicted to Trimonoes (3 sided dominoes) – not one of us has mentioned or missed TV once.
Kirsty is home for the Easter weekend, clearly having lots of fun at the St Stithians rugby Festival and sleeping in my marshmallow bed. Poor Gareth is on duty, working hard at La Colombe.
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