I'm up fairly early after a hot, sweaty night; just in time to see the sunrise.
We pack up our tents and then Chris gives us all a quick lesson about the origins of the Kalahari area, and the Boer war. Our concentration is effected by a jackal that wanders into our camp and seems as fascinated to watch us us we are to watch him.
We then drive round to the next campsite expecting to be able to fill our water containers, but a pride of lions have invaded the camp. There was a male, about three grown females and several cubs, all sleeping in either the A frame or on the ground in front of the long drop toilet.
We stayed and watched them for about 30 mins. Not much activity, they had obviously settled in for the day! We did see two of the cubs suckling on their mother though. We were quite glad it wasn't our campsite they had invaded - how do you pack up camp when lions are lying around, Chris reckoned they wouldn't be leaving until late afternoon. They were lovely, and we were very lucky to have seen them.
We continued to drive around, seeing oryx, springbok, ostrich and various birds. Again we were driving through clouds of butterflies! We saw another Kari Busted, and then a couple of yellow beaked hornbills.
After a drinks stop (couldn't use the toilet there as there was a bees nest in it) and a lunch stop, we reached our evening camp site. A luxury one, there was a shower (a tap over a hole with a half wall round it) and the cold water runs quite hot from the sunshine.
We can also see a bataleur, an eagle with red beak and feet, from the site, and have our own resident quail type bird running around.
Dinner is Bobotie, a South African speciality of spicy minced meat topped with an egg/milk mixture and baked, then served with rice and a peach chutney.
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