The Albatross
Tuesday 22 August 2023
For some reason, I woke at 4:00 this morning and couldn’t get back to sleep, so ended up getting up stupidly early. Rather annoying. Anyway, we ended up on the road just after 8:00, which was again a bit of a bummer as we only had to go north a few hundred kms and needed to arrive at 13:00. In the last town we decided to have brunch to kill some time, which did the trick as we arrived at the park main gate at 12:30 where the lodge driver Patrick had also just arrived, so we were whisked away quick smart.
Around 14:00 we were served second lunch, we really weren’t hungry.
Then we were off on our evening game drive, the highlight a cheetah. She had just finished eating her kill and was wandering down the road past us with a bloody face. She then stopped a waterhole we couldn’t access, before continuing downhill again past our vehicle. Very cool.
For some reason we weren’t very hungry for dinner, and happy for a shower and to head back to our cabin to chill and have an early night as the power is out between 9:00pm and 11:30pm.