We have another Wimpy breakfast, fill up with fuel and head
out for Gweta a journey of over 300kms as we want to see Baines Baobabs and a
bit of Nxai Pan. We enter Nxai Pan National Park just off the A3 some 120kms from Maun and Baines Baobabs that on all map books appear to be right alongside the main road proves not to be the case and the first 13kms the
road is the worst I have ever been on, again there is tracts of thick sand then
corrugations that were made in hell they are a metre apart and half a metre
deep and then you get sections where it is like you are in a rodeo on a bucking
bronco and it throws your car back across the road, my poor car, let alone my nerves
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| Kudiakama Pan |
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| Black and white coming for a drink |
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| Elephants stomach ripped open, Ranger said nothing they could do it was probably a lion attack or a fight with a peer that caused it and it was a case of survival of the fittest |
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| What fun they had |
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We reach Baines Baobabs which are very impressive and then
we head for the waterhole at North Camp and on our way there we see a group of
4 elephant, clearly on a mission to the waterhole.
We arrive at the waterhole before the elephant , but they
and a couple of bull elephants arrive along with Kudu, Oryx, Zebra and a couple
of Black Backed Jackals and they put on quite a show for us. We had to tear
ourselves away as we have to drive back on the helter skelter road from hell
with me driving this time.
Our first priority at Gweta Lodge, yes another establishment
that has the cheek to call itself a Lodge, but it is fine, we down 3 St Louis
Beers with sprites a very nice dinner that included a superb Pavlova dessert. A
very satisfying if exhausting day.
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| Baines Baobabs |
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| Spraying themselves with mud |
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| A few of the Gemsbok (Oryx) |
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| Nxai Pan |
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| Twins |
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| Kudu male with one of his 8 females |
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| This one was a real character and full of tricks like this slip slide into the waterhole |
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