Happy Birthday Gayl and Lois – hope you have a great day.
After an English and continental breakfast combined, we left the Bulawayo Club with very full tummies. We meandered around Bulawayo filling up with diesel, looking for an ATM, with money in it and we found a nice shopping centre. There was a good supermarket and a butchery; with a Blue Bulls logo and it had some pretty decent boerewors.
We then left Bulawayo and headed 260km north, west to an area just outside Hwange National Park. Our destination was Ivory Lodge, Gray had seen a recent article in the Country Living Magazine and I had seen an advert in the Bulawayo Club for the place. We arrived around lunch time and it was wonderful – attached to a stunning tented lodge, with all the facilities and a swimming pool, was a very newly built camp area. We are surrounded by bush, with a great thatched living area and great ablutions. The lodge area has the most comfortable hide, more like a lounge, overlooking a waterhole. We were welcomed by a herd of ellie drinking at the waterhole. Shortly after that a lion arrived to survey the area. Vultures were pecking at a buffalo carcass that had been killed the day before.
After setting up camp and exploring around, we went down to the hide and watched various animals drift out the bush for a drink and drift back in again. Late afternoon, Gray and Ga went back to camp to sort out the fire, while Robs and I bonded in the hide and watched the sun set. We left just before dark as we had been warned that there were lions around and didn’t want to encounter one in the dark on the way back to camp.
When we arrived back the fire had already been made by the staff from the lodge – it was huge, they had taken 3 tree trunks made this amazing fire place in the bush. We were so thankful for this, as although the days are hot (around 28°c), the temperature plummets at night and we were kept nice and warm. After a braai, we all headed into our tents for an early night.
Lounge
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