uMkhuze/St. Lucia dag 10: Back to camp

Dinsdag 31-10-2018

uMkhuze/St. Lucia dag 10:         Back to camp

Dieren vandaag gezien / Animals spotted:

·         Giraffe

·         Impala

·         Plains zebra

I woke up early again. Around 5.15 am. I was so not happy with this. When I finally get a chance to sleep in I wake up early. I waited for a while and started downloading photos and writing stories. When Estelle woke up we started swapping photos and video’s

I left the tent around 7.40 am to do some shopping and return the rental car. The better supermarket wasn’t open jet so I decided to fuel up the car first. When I tried to pay with my normal card it was declined ☹. Then the credit card, getting a bit worried because I wasn’t sure about the pin code but it worked. What a relief. After this I did some grocery shopping and took the car to the rental place. Here I tried to get some money back because the tank wasn’t full when we received the car. Annemarie (rental lady) said she would try for me.

Back to the lodge. Not long after I got back the boys joined us and made breakfast. Eggs, sausages, bacon and toast. This was nice of them. We had to leave our tents at 10 am, so I did the last bit of packing up and I was finished fairly quickly. We parked ourselves in the common aria till we were picked up. In the mean time I put some photos on my blog, had my interview with Estelle and played some pool. Not a bad morning at all.

The driver picked us up around 12. In the car I started to translate my stories to Dutch. This was quite hard after not having to speak our right this language for a while. But funny as well.

In Hluhluwe we said goodbye to Estelle. And off we were off again. We took a short cut to get to the park. Here was Teegan waiting for us and she took us the rest of the way.

At 4 pm we left for the afternoon session with Megan. Aaron and Emilie stayed at camp because they had predicted rain. During the session it rained and I think Pascal doesn’t really likes it. He looked grumpy and complained. I thought it wasn’t to bad jet. We went to look for the lioness (MLF5) with 2 cubs. We had signal but it was in the bush. So we had to wait for her to move. We did this at the place where the nature camp used to be. It was a roofed aria with some buildings around it. Megan showed it to use and I think if they would fix it up it would be great to have a camp her. Pascal and I took shelter in the roofed aria. Roofed is a big word because there were more holes than there was roofing left. But it was better than sitting in the back of the car. We stayed her for about 1,5 hours but nothing happened. We headed of and tried to triangulate them from other points in the park. Then back home. When we arrived Emilie and Aaron were still watching movies in our room. It looked nice and cozzie.