Friday, 11 July 2008

Day 4

Day 4

Well we had to be up and ready to go for 7 bells. I woke up at 5 so no worries on getting up on time. We headed over to the Bushwise campus. This seems to be more bushy than the place we are staying. There are a good few more South Africans there. The huts sleep two and they share all the wash room facilities. There area isn’t fenced off so apparently there are leopards and hyena’s that come down to their watering hole there at night. I’d say you would want to be a bit brave going to the jax in the middle of the night and I’m sure most of the guys staying there are bursting by the time morning comes. The drive over was on the back of the game drive vehicle. Kevin the Scot came out of his room with only a shirt on. I think he underestimated how cold it would so I advised him to bring a jacket. He was a luck y man. Despite the fact that he brought the aforementioned jacket and top he was literally shaking and blue when we got to Bushwise. It’s a good 2 hour drive from where we are located. I think the web site were using some poetic license by describing it as a 20 min drive. Funnily enough the Bushwise camp is beside Karongwe reserve. The very same Karongwe that I had been watching the DVD’s for in my gaff back home in Clonsilla. It a mad coincidence as I thought it was in Kenya. There is an Irish guy working there after finishing the guiding course. We did our first aid course there for the day and drove back to our own campus. This time I took the back seat possie. By Jaysus as Terry would say I was Baltic by the time I got back. My hands were blue with the chill. Lesson learned for next time. We grabbed some food that evening and hit the hay early.

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