We awoke to another cold morning - frost on the vehicle; the only thing that enticed me out of bed was the thought of a hot shower - everywhere we have been there has been plenty of hot water and given the weather that has been a real plus. I looked out of the window to see if the ground squirrels were up - sensible souls, they were still snug in their burrows! We put the hot plate on in the kitchen to warm it up for breakfast and it definitely helped with eatin...

Today we were up, had breakfast and packed by 6.45am as we were off on the morning walk organised by SAN (South African National) parks. We were the only ones walking with the two armed and very knowledgeable young guides. The good part was we drove to an area of the park that other users don't get to go to; the bad part was a really cold wind that got up with the sun and it never really warmed up - we had dressed in layers which weren't removed as anticipated b...

Today we woke at 4.45am and had 3 cups of tea/ coffee before Hein arrived for breakfast at 7am. After breakfast we made sandwiches to eat while travelling - mine were peanut butter, jam and banana - yum.....John was a more traditional cheese, meat and cucumber! Everything packed up we set off for Upington en route to the Kalahari and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. We arrived in Upington at 9.30ish Hein bought a few more supplies and we bought some water and a...

Up at 6.15 so we were ready for a light breakfast and 7.15 start. Our early day objective was to walk the Dassie (aka rock hyrax) Trail - 6.5kms. It was definitely warmer than yesterday, no frost, but we still needed jackets until the sun was properly up. The trail was challenging due to the fact it went across numerous smooth rocks and we had to cross several reasonably sized rocky tributaries - if we were lucky there was a bridge if not we had to leap from rock...

It was a freezing start to the day, with frost on top of the van to prove it. A hot shower followed by breakfast stopped the cold getting to the core- but that said my feet didn't warm up until lunchtime! There were compensations however - the sky was blue and cloudless and as we set off bumping along the unmade road we saw steinbok, duiker and a small herd of kudu. Overhead we spotted today's photo a lovely pigmy falcon all fluffed up against the cold......and t...