10th Sept
We packed up at Nossab with this beautiful sunrise to start the day. Tyre pressures were reduced to 1 bar for the thick
sand.
The turn off to Mabuasehube. 200ks of thick sand and the worst corrugations one could wish for
It was heavy going
and took us 8 hours. There was next to no game en route. A long tiring day to say the least.
The first 20ks were the worst from a dune point of view and inevitably one of us got stuck in the sand up one of
the dunes. The trailers made it even more difficult and they do damage the road, making it extremely bumpy where
they get wheel spin up the dunes. We needed momentum to get up the dune and we had to hang on to everything.
It was shake,rattle and roll until the road leveled out a bit..
SO in the back ground with his hand in the air. When we all got back into the cars SO said did we realise this was
lion country and there we all were out of the cars. I must admit I did check around
Some of the scenery along the way. Lovely parkland with long grass to.....
to bare ground.
A mid way stop for coffee and something to eat.
This from a few years ago I believe. Apparently when the grass is long in the middle of the road it can build up
around the exhaust and eventually it will catch alight.
We arrived at our camp site at Mabuasehube pan, set up and then relaxed with another beautiful sunset.
Again no water at all and a disgusting toilet. We heard that about three years ago there had been water here but
either the pipes had broken or the boreholes had run dry. The water hole in this pan also had no water. The lions and
leopards have learnt that there can be water in the drain from the shower and they regularly patrol around looking for
water. Amazingly there were quite a lot of birds and there were half plastic bottles in the sand where people put water
out for them.
But, ja, the older one looks a bit... mean
Well done on making it! 
and then a kill, pity about the workers and the noise
