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Up early and my turn to cook breakfast, so for a change two eggs and mystery sausages. Passing through the reserve gates we had our uncooked eggs removed, but where allowed to keep the beer.
Last drive through Etosha before hitting the tarmac down towards Outjo before swinging off the tarmac and onto the gravel of the C40. Stopped at Kamanjab for fresh supplies.
Drove on through the Grootberg pass and into Palmwag for our next camp site.
This was a very nice site with our own private enclosed pitch with sink, light, power point and coverd seating area. Most important of course, only 20 paces to the barand food. We contined the theme of seeing wildlife, wonderin at its splender and then eating it.
The roads are an interesting combination of gravel, sand or rock.
Some gravel roads are fine but most have small rides running across the road every few centimetres, this means if you drive slowly you get shaken to pieces and all your fillings drop out, however if you drive between 50 and 70KMPH then it just a gentle vibration, however this means the car is floating just above he road which makes all bends a little interesting as you gently float across the road. Fortunately you can see oncoming vehicles from miles away because the approaching dust cloud.
If yo hit sand at speed the car will just go where ever it feels like, you can turn the wheel if you want to feel better, but it wont make any difference.
The rock is just painful and slow, and as we found out the next day rough on the tyres.
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