Day 5

The road is beautiful, going through the vast desert dunes: up and down, left and right. As expected, we didn’t see a lot of mammals: some birds and a few lonesome Oryx’s.
It’s much too warm here.

When I speak of dunes, I should point out that here dunes are still covered with little brushes of grass. Dunes here are not completely naked.

The trip took us a few hours to complete. Arriving at Nossob we first thought no more good spots were available for our tents. Later we concluded we had a good spot We recognize some campers from other camps of the previous day. We greet them and ask them about their game drivers to know where we could theoretically go and look for interesting animals.

I decided to enjoy a moment of peace and to go fulfill one of nature’s calling;
Just when I was quietly taking a dump, Pete comes inside the toilets yelling to stop taking a dump because 4 lions are near the camp’s waterhole. So you see even in the wild, you sometimes don’t have these little moments of peace to enjoy a quiet shit (rofl)

Anyway I didn’t complain… Lions… I mean…
I got to see my first Kalahari lions. Althought they were a bit far, I took some puctures using the digital zoom of my camera. (I usually don’t use it because the images aren’t sharp. I’m mostly only use my optical zoom which is equivalent to a 420 mm lens )
But anyhow, the 4 times digital conversion of a 420 mm lens gave me a few relatively satisfying results.

I then went for a shower as I felt really dirty. (Yesterday there was no warm water, so my shower was short)

Dinner today?
Rice with sausages & “makalaka”. We had some fun: read we had a few beers and some brandy…
At 22 the whole camp was yet again sound asleep. We head off for another quick peek at the waterhole hide (which has a light spot at night). But except for a few jackals, nothing to see. Maybe because we were making too much noise: we both were a bit tipsy and laughed ourselves to tears in the hide. So much for being quiet in a hide…

Back at our tents, I drunk another brandy to keep myself warm (yeah right) and we went to bed.
It was my best night sleep of the trip so far. (I wonder why….)