Trying to update the blog as this could be the last opportunity for the next 12 days.
We had a relaxing day at our lodge and set off to join up with our tour group after lunch. The meeting point was some 120kms away at Kamanjab.
We had a relaxing day at our lodge and set off to join up with our tour group after lunch. The meeting point was some 120kms away at Kamanjab.
We were told to be at the meeting point between 15h00 and
15h30 and when we arrived at 15h15 all the others were already there and
getting ready to go. I saw all these men with what looked like fishing rods and
it crossed my mind where would you fish out here there is no water, they turned
out to be radio aerials.
We approach the group and Denise is trying to draw my
attention to something and I was only half listening as I was trying to locate
the leader of this large group of people and suddenly I hear someone say “Hi
Alan” it is Roger Hogarth and his wife Julia. Roger was with Afrox and both
Denise and I worked with him before he joined Life Health in 2003, what a
surprise, it is definitely a small world.
The group consist of 12 4x4’s with a total of 26 people and
a support group of 2 vehicles and 4 young guys including our tour leader and
guide Phil van Wyk and he has a photo journalist from Drive Out magazine who is
covering the tour.
Our tents are pitched at the camp site and all we have to do
is unload our beds, chairs and bags. Following a briefing and all round
introductions us and Roger and Julia are the only English speaking South
Africans the rest are Afrikaans speakers in addition I am the only one who does
not speak and largely do not understand Afrikaans, but Phil is very
accommodating and he mixes up English with Afrikaans and it is not a problem.
The first camp site is good with plenty of showers and
toilets; however we are warned that not all the camp sites are this salubrious.
We have a very nice dinner all prepared over open fires and
we are in bed early prepared for a 07h30 start in the morning following
breakfast at 06h30.
The support group gets ahead of us or on some occasions
takes a shorter route to the next camp site, sets up tents and prepares our
Dinner for that day, now that is the way I like camping
The group vehicles consist of 1 Landrover Discovery 3, 1
Pajero the rest are Toyota ’s,
Prado’s, Fortuner’s and Hilux’s
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| Denise relaxing at Damara Mopane Lodge Khorixas |
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| Our Home for the next 12 days |
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