Getting our blog posted yesterday
was comical. The caravan park’s internet server went down so the very
accommodating park manager managed to hook us up briefly using her internet
stick connection, which also was not working very well. The three of us ended
up in the parking lot with our laptop perched on the roof of her car for
maximum access.
The caravan park was interesting.
It was completely fenced complete with an electronic gate and security guard to
control access. Inside the compound is an aviary with parrots/budgies, rosy
faced love birds and the like, a greenhouse, a restaurant, a spa, a small
farmyard with geese, goats and chickens plus, of course, camping spots and
motel units. Oh yes, and the lawn mowing crew which consisted of three
antelope! They didn’t seem too bothered with people around but did the usual
snort, foot stomp thing if they thought we were getting too close.
This morning we departed Piet
Retief at 0800 and headed south toward the Indian Ocean, our destination being
the Hluhlewe-imfolozi Park, a wildlife reserve in our next destination
province: Kwazulu Natal. We made fairly good time except for the last hour
where goat/human/chicken/pothole dodging was necessary. The park looked
interesting, but the check-in people didn’t speak very good English so we needed
to drive into the park to discover there was no camping or accommodation of any
kind available, so we had lunch there, spent a bit of time at an animal capture
display center and headed toward the coast. While in the park we did see a bull
elephant in a river and a large male giraffe who walked across the road in
front of us. Pretty impressive how tall they are. The temperature was 39C for awhile!
We are now at Dave’s Place camp
and youth hostel in St Lucia where we will spend the night. Pretty interesting
with the answers we keep getting about internet. “We think we have it” but this
rarely pans out. We are now heading off to the internet café down the way to
see what we can do.
We are here and now will try to
download a picture. . .check last two blogs for more.
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| African sunrise. |
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