Part 2
Kosi Bay to Mkuze: Day 6
The wind started blowing the day before we left Kosi Bay to Mkhuze Game reserve. The normal calm lake became a rough sea of waves and with the wing came the clouds. The next morning we quickly started packing up when the clouds turned into rain. Luckily only for a short period, but enough to make the tent wet.
We left Kosi Bay early and travelled towards Manguzi and Phelandaba. At a traffic circle in Phelandaba we turned left and headed south pass Lake Sibaya and Sodwana. We decided to enter Mkhuze at the new Ophansi gate, but were for a moment lost when it took us a bit longer than expected. I thought from the turnoff its only 4 km, but it is actually 15 km on a badly corrugated gravel road. This road does save you some time when compared to driving to the main gate after Mkhuze town on the western side of the park. See link below for the route we followed.
http://goo.gl/maps/wouXo
Map of Mkhuze Game reserve provided by Toko under KZN parks (best map on internet
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Mkhuze game reserve does not fall under the Wild card and at the gate we first paid the conservation fees and thereafter booked in even at Mantuma camp, although still too early. Luckily reception had no problem booking us in and we got the key just after 12 pm. Unfortunately we had to wait about 30 min for the chalet to be cleaned and our take-away, which took nearly an hour.
After the meal of toated samis and chips we headed towards on of the best hides in the park, namely kuMasinga hide. The parking area is a few 100 meters from the hide where you need to walk through open veld to find rhino's and buffalo at the hide. Heading back one natural think of the animals you were just viewing in the safety of the hide that might just walk in the direction of the car park.
Maybe not of the dangerous kind -O -O -O :
The Afro guinea fowl spotted by Moshi:
After kuMasinga hide we drove to Nsumo pan hides from where we spotted far off and close-up birds and hippos. The pan was very full compared to our previous visit and had no island in the middle to get closer view of the pelicans:
Where the .... are you. 
-O 
