Packed up camp and left around 11. Drove to Spitekuppe campsite. This took slightly longer than anticipated and also involved another tyre repair, this time by a lovely man who only charged us a quarter of the amount for a much better job. We arrived at Spitekuppe at about 5pm. How spectacular. We had sundowners on a rock looking out over a vast landscape. It was beautiful. We had spingbok steak for tea cooked on the braai. It was delicious but a little over do...

We went up to Grootsberg Lodge to see if there was anyone who could help us with our tyre situation. Rachael and I had tried to change it at the campsite but with no luck as we couldn't work out how to get the spare tyre down. The truck as a second fuel tank which blocked the view to the nut used to let the spare down from under the truck. Annoying! The track up to the Lodge was definately only for 4x4. Rachael did really well and drove us successfully to the to...

We left Okamkuejo and headed for Grootberg campsite. We stopped in Kamanjab for fuel and realised that we had a massive thorn in our tyre. The local men tried to fix it (for an astanoical price) and we found out later that this was not totally successful! We arrived at the campsite just after half past 2. It was really hot but the campsite was absolutely amazing. There were only 3 pitches on the whole site. Each site had it's own toilet (with a view), shower, kit...

We headed to some waterholes that were recommended to us by a guide that Rachael knew. Alas there was nothing there. I was getting a little anannoyed at the lack of game and the constant driving. We arrived at the furthest watehole and there in the bushs was a male lion. Amazing. We drove back to another waterhole not expecting to see anything but there under the tree right by the road were to lionesses. One got bored of the constant clicking of the cameras and w...

We traveled into Etosha National Park. It is emense. Such space. It is also very dry and a lot of it has been damaged by fire. We drove round the Fisher's Pan where we saw a lot of Wilder beest, Kudu, Giraffe and Springbok. What an introduction. We then went down to the kalkeuwel Waterhole where on the way we got a little too close to the middle of a herd of Elephant. Opps. It was a good thing reverse worked so well! We stayed the night at Halali which was a bi...