11 April 2012
(I'm not sure what happened, but I seem to have skipped out the 10 April 2012 in my camping journal.)
The holiday work continued throughout that morning whilst
the sunshine thawed out my bones. Luke and his family left on another game
drive escapade that afternoon, leaving me behind to tackle my notes. In
addition to what was seen the day before, they also saw wildebeest, blesbok
and red-eyed doves. As the sun set, I joined them for a professional night time
game drive. Our tour guide took us off road onto less traveled tracks, and
used his torch to sweep the surrounding darkness for the glint of animal eyes.
He astounded us by naming the dark shapes by the height of the eyes from ground
level and the way the light glanced off them. Decked out in ponchos provided by
the Mountain Zebra staff, munching on biltong, and notifying each other to the
presence of something through whispers, we got to see bat eared foxes, duiker,
gemsok, spring hares (such a fluffy tail!), spotted eagle owls and porcupine. It
was a great opportunity, albeit a cold one, and we ended off the night with a
hot meal of Petro’s other specialty – Cowboy Kos and wraps.
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