We landed in Joburg, collected our bags and picked up the hire car, a Ford. With no time to spare, we headed off for Welgevonden in the Waterberg. We'd booked the 1 of clock lodge transfer and our gps said we would get there 12:45. The weather was wonderful, just warm enough to wear a t-shirt and feel hot. We arrived spot on time at the reserve and were welcomed with cold beer. Fantastic to be back in Africa! We were sharing transfer with a Dutch couple, Minke and Bart who we spent our time with at drives and meals. They were great.
We saw buck, zebra and my favourite, bush pigs. The sky started getting dark and we raced back to the lodge, thunder and lightning cracking loudly, just as big drops of rain started falling. I was so happy! Africa, hot and a thunderstorm. Sigh with pleasure.
The lodge was beautiful and we were shown our room, which had a warm, bubbling jacuzzi that we jumped into before lunch.
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| Our private jacuzzi |
Lunch was great. Salads and chicken pie, with cold Fat Bastard savignon blanc. Yum!
Soon we were off for our game drive, accompanied by the other lodge guests, two elderly sisters in their eighties, a gentleman friend, who we heard later was worth 40 million, but living a miserable life in a home, and a youngish friend who was his carer for the weekend. The old man was getting dementia and would forget where he was was. But I was impressed with these old guys off on safari. We saw some rhino and lions and enjoyed our sundowners, even though it started to rain.
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| Our Dutch friends, Bart and Minke |
Dinner was great and soon after we fell into bed exhausted. Although it was only 10 o clock, for us on Beijing time it was 4 o clock in the morning!
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