Africa Wild

The return 2nd part - Le retour 2ème partie
first part .. ..

13.10 Upington

The flight went well, we landed 10 minutes in advance and neither my friend nor the car renter are there
Upington is small and we can leave at the last minute

I go directly to my friend Evelyne where the drama is being prepared. After greeting the family, we go to the dogs, which have a large enclosure that separates them from the workers and stupor one of them, Barnie, is missing ... he remained lying on a blanket, along the great niche ... it does not move ... he died, died from his "good" death, later said to us the vet

Everyone is crying
A Cognac becomes a necessity to boost morale ... it's only 11:00 in the morning...

I still made no shopping for the next day, I have to move me a little bit, I have to go shopping for 2 weeks and then for five weeks for the drinks, my nephew will arrive a Sunday, it is imperative if we want to drink beer, savanna and amarula and why not some wine ... red

We start, Judit, the mother of my friend who also needs a change, and I, and that's racing ...
All Departments, I ordered the meat, with the salesperson looking for me in every corners of the store to ask if it suits me, hoping not to forget anything

I do not have the head for that. Wood, water, fire lights, yougurts, cheese, vegetables, fruits, household paper, foil, salt, pepper, spices, coffee, tea ... and what else
I have a list for the necessary, but need some ideas to surprise my nephew, as I would like he likes the Kgalagadi and especially, he wanted to go back
I must not be wrong

And yet ... he has loved Kgalagadi, but maybe not be all that I bought

It's dark when we return, the car is more than full.
Meanwhile 'my' car was delivered and I transfer everything in the trunk and on the back seat.
I will organize me in the park. I have to share my suitcase into small packets easier for me to carry from one camp to another

Good food, as usual with my friends ... a good night ... and I'm almost ready for the Grand Depart,
tame the "monster",
stop at the bank, where it took me over an hour to change Swiss francs banknotes
and I left with a "Monopoly", in a well seeing envelope... with the name of the bank

250 km of straight road, not so secure, especially the last km with herds of goats on the road, sheep, goats with little ones on the sides, pedestrians, bicycles, meerkats and other squirrels ...

I arrive in the park around 16h, one gives to me the chalet No. 15, near the shop where I can't park, because the two car's places are already occupied by a car ... Alone in the world ... alone in the park

First galley, more than an hour to unload everything!

But I am in ... .. for 2 nights at Twee Rivieren and 7 weeks in the park

Kgalagadi alone 14 to 26.10.2014

14/15.10.2014 TR

Completely excited to finally be back in the Kgalagadi, it is impossible for me to sleep.
I test my new toy, a brand new modem which 5 mobile/tablet/lap top can connect, it was the only one that suit my new laptop and that took us several hours/days in Cape Town to get it
Everything works fine, except that the connections are ... well ... hard

Tonight I cook stuffed mushrooms ... fashion .... Michele… revisited by nan

Yes Liz... will be... but this episode was so
it was the dog of my friend's husband... and so sad

too late... all is in the stomac... and even.... farther

15.10.2014

In the morning, ... I choose Nossob river for the first output, until Dikbaardskok
I'm lucky, Black-shouldered Kite, Sandgrouses, climbing Mouses, playing BEF, Meerkats, Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill, Spotted Eagle Owl, Black-breasted Snake Eagle, Cape Cobra twice, Springbox "twisted horn"

Burchell's Sandgrouse/Ganga de Burchell

Bat-eared Fox/Otocyon

Four-stripped Mouse

Suricate

Cape Cobra/Cobra du Cap

idem

Springboks

an odd one

Black-chested Snake Eagle/Circaète à poitrine noire
Cape Cobra/Cobra du Cap

Black-shouldered Kite/Elanion blanc

Forktail Drongo/Drongo brillant

the first of a long list
Spotted Eagle-Owl/Grand-duc Africain

offered me this feather

Toko searching for food

16/19.10.2014 KTC – No 11

16.10.2014

I leave TR after all is loaded into the car, still parked behind the chalet the occupants of the adjoining chalet still do not understand that the place is for 2 cars
A Sparrow (female) (granivor) catches an insect and struggles to swallow it

House Sparrow fem/Moineau domestic fem.

En route to KTC, where I did not get the "Honey Moon" tent ... others have rented before me. Too bad, it would have helped me for the continuation