Day 200 - DAY 200!

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Passing yet another milestone, today is our 200th day away. Hopefully we're not fading from the collective memory entirely. We spent the day in Etosha National Park, driving for about 6 hours from one campsite to another via yet another (where we stopped for lunch). The stopover campsite was where we had our daily cool down swim, whilst waiting to see if our truck could continue. We'd broken down in the morning when the fanbelt broke and, despite the pre-departure assurances about the truck carrying an extensive array of spare parts, the only spare fanbelt on board was the wrong size. Alois the driver worked his magic though and as things turned out we were able to continue with our journey without breaking down again -lucky really since we were in the middle of a salt flat literally miles from any shade and a very hot sun.

We had some more good game viewing including hyena, elephant, zebra and giraffe. We even saw a couple of lions in long grass with some hard-to-see cubs playing around them.

Our evening campsite had another watering hole but we knew not to expect as much as yesterday because Gemma came here with Raleigh in 2003. We turned up to hear we'd just missed a lion by 10 minutes, sat there for half an hour seeing nothing but constantly imagining elephant and lion shape in the trees and rocks in the distance. Then we called it a night, although Gemma and some others heard lions during the night from the tents.

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Comments

[Alan]

Ed & Gemma, who?
Earplugs should be the must have accessory, it does not matter what is outside the tent, how near it is or how angry if you can not hear it. Sleep soundly I say.