Kruger, August 12th

We took off at 7:15 this morning. Freezing cold. Luckily my (old) watch has "given up the ghost" which is why I need to find someone to change the battery. Might be a bit of a difficulty with a Junghans. Otherwise I'll just buy myself one of the fancy digital watches the guys sell in the streets. Maybe I'll get one that has an Atari-style car race installed. That'd be cool. Just like in 6th grade. :)

Anyway...we got here at 1 whereas we had actually planned to hit Phalaborwa gate at 11. Nice South African timing, but look who's writing. Hehe. Since we got a lecture about the elephants in Kruger at Letaba camp we really had to rush. Besides we wouldn't have seen a lot anyway because this area is dead dry at the moment and the animals gather around the waterholes of which here there are only a few. So the lecture was sort of okay, but not more than that. We took off to Mopani camp and just before we got there we saw a bunch of cars piling up ahead of us. Everyone thought it would be lions, but no, it was a hyena with little pups. I was able to take a few pictures, you'll see later. So now we are at the camp, everyone except me has gone off to the restaurant, because apparently they don't ask the new additions to join. Hm. Well, I had some blue bull steak and baked potatoes that I had cooked on the neighbors braai. Now I'll go search for my charger to convert and upload a few pictures. Until later tonite! :)