Flutts and the Brat go it alone

[RogerFraser]

Wow the luck with the Owls . R.P.

[Flutterby]

You certainly hit the jackpot with owls, Flutts!

Richprins!

Yep, we were lucky with owls this trip.

Another Pearlie I have not even seen one

No tinyhogs! Probably the reason that they were calm

The vervet lying on the back is

I also thought the vervet was very !

Crocodile bridge is such a nice little camp

Date with Richprins

I also love Croc Bridge.

Not so uncommon for you indeed, those pearlies Lovely colours in that pic

I told you.

Also love your pearlie shot, Flutterby

Thanks Pumbaa.

Wow the luck with the Owls . R.P.

We seemed to be seeing them everywhere!

[Flutterby]

11 July, Crocodie Bridge

Not long after getting back to camp, RP arrived in his car...his hut was about 20 metres away! He had his trusty basket and infamous ice-bucket! He told the Brat it was fire-building lesson time!

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I had told RP that we had chops and chicken and that I was making a potato salad but he still arrived with a pack of 12 chops, 4 steaks and boerewors....I don't know who else he thought was coming for dinner!! He also insisted on making pap and sheba which I told him we didn't eat, but he wasn't deterred and I got a pap-making lesson!

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After all the preparations were done we could sit down and chat...and have a few drinks. While chatting I looked over to the stove and saw a knife move. I looked at the Brat and he had huge eyes, also looking at the knife!! It had spun around almost 180° with no visible signs of what caused it to move!! We checked the knife - it wasn't sitting in water and there was no wind...it was really weird!

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Not long after that something rather large fell on my head. I jumped up, trying to shake whatever it was off and heard it fall on the floor...it was a gecko!! How does a gecko fall on someone's head...don't they have sticky feet?? Creepy crawlies don't worry me too much but I must admit my first thought was that it was a huge spider and that freaked me out a bit!! We were all a bit disconcerted over the knife and falling gecko and RP felt the need to touch the ice-bucket to ward off any ghosties. The Brat and I weren't freaked out enough to jinx the rest of our trip so we declined!


We had the perfect fire and RP put the chicken and hundreds of chops on to cook!

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RP with his plate and braai spice!

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By the time the chicken and chops were cooked the fire was dying so I told RP not to cook the steak and wors but he fiddled around with the coals and threw the rest of the meat onto the grid! We couldn't even finish the meat we had already cooked, so RP went home with enough leftovers for weeks!

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We had a great evening, with a few drinks (maybe more, in RP's case ) and lots of laughs. RP left at about 11pm...I wonder how long it took him to find his way back to his hut?

[Lisbeth]

Another 10 people could have been invited

Who was drinking fruit juice

Maybe RP's idea was exactly that, to have leftovers for a week. Cooked they would be ok, but not raw

How high did you jump when the gecko fell onto your head The knife moving sounds almost scary. If the tiles are not completely level, the weight of the handle can actually make a knife move, also after a while if it is sliding very, very slooooowly

Sounds like a pleasant evening

[Richprins]

Flutts!

Yes, a very pleasant evening indeed!

The boy was drinking juice...

Flutts and I did quite a complex tango in the small kitchen, also discovering the mysteries of the hotplates as usual!

I see the barber shaved half of the skin off the back of my head again...

I got home fine, except for walking into the thatch on my verandah and getting two holes in the front of my head...

I'm about half way through the leftovers.

[Alf]

Looks like even the ghosts from Crocodile bridge were invited

[Mel]

I wonder if RP actually has mastered some demoncraft (witchcraft seems a bit odd in his case ) and managed to move the knife only with the power of his mind?

That is a LOT of food and not everything was on the table by then, I conclude

Forgot what you saw that afternoon. Too much distraction in camp

Oh, and I don't think I have ever seen the RP without a cap And it looks like you lost some weight, RP?
Maybe the leftovers are not sufficient to feed you properly...

[RogerFraser]

Looks like a great evening .Important to have lots of meat at a braai

The knife story is a bit

We have lots of Geckos here and regularly end up with them on our head especially when opening the garage door but they do also sometimes just seem to fall off the walls

[Bushcraft]

Hyenas on the S100 , but a fantastic cheetah spot , it must have been Brat’s young eyes

Sable on the H10 , not seen there often and a “brown wartie”

RP’s ice bucket, that thing nearly cursed me the next day, you should have touched it

Fire building lesson, is RP blowing on the fire

Wow, there’s enough food for an AW meet

I bet you jumped rather high when that gecko fell on your head


The tango RP , the Cow will get jealous

[Pumbaa]

It looks like you had a more than magnificent evening as well as dinner - The food is looking extreme yummy