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Friday 29 April Piper Pan CKGR
Unbelievably a week have flown by so quickly since we left home.
We had a lazy morning checked on breakages and repairs
The Syncro ignition switch could not turn anymore and was luckily stuck switched on
And cracked from corrugated road abuse so stripped the white ign bone out and cable tied it on steering to work
On Avons Jeep we removed his tyre and fitted the spare
Re inflated the flat to see if it held air and
Found a piece of wire in and plugged it so for emergency use he does have a spare wheel for use
Around 11am we set out for a drive and checked out Camp site 2. in the bush and not large enough for 5 campers
On the way back Avon and my self set out to inspect the closer watering hole. And found no Animals
Then Decided to head in the direction of Exede gate ................ and saw on Garmin a burnt our wreck icon
24km away and decided we crazy enough to go check it out.
On the drive I Spotted one of the largest Koedoe s I have ever seen with Rowland Award Winning Horns
So hour and half later of slow driving as the road is bad we found it. One burnt out Jeep Avon a Jeep driver was shocked to see it and was a Jeep JK four door Body.
We turned around and Headed back on the very bumpy road to camp 30km.
As we got to Piper Pan Alley spotted a Male Lion and saw us driving opposite side of the pan and directed us to where the Young male was.
He was laying in the shade and very well spotted by Ally.
We called everyone in camp on the radio to come spot the lion and all drove out of camp to the lions sighting.
Manny eventually no patience wanted to see if he is going to get the Lion to get up and drove past him back to camp. Lion lazaly got up and walked 200m closer to our camp and plonked him self down again Thanks Manny lol
We eventually got back to camp With the thought there is a wild Lion less than 200m from camp and we made fire to cook food you are very very wary of your surroundings
We had an eventfull night everyone on edge
Wessel was on the tip of his toes sitting on his chair feeding the fire.
He went to his Bush Lapa and I told everyone I'm Going to prank him and sneaked around the back of his trailer.
I nearly peed in my own pants from laughing and even had to put a hand over my mouth and nose to silence me before giving Wessel a fright I could not believe how on edge and nervous Wessel was.
Wessel in his trailer busy making his bed and everyone supposed to be at the fire
But Renay and Tanya were peeping through the trees towards his trailer.
I made a slight noise behind the trailer and he came out with his torch very scared but brave shinning the Torch around he was trying to determine the origin of the noise.
Me still trying to contain myself from bursting out of laughter. I gave it a few seconds and scratched and made a huge noise behind him on his shower cubical.
It was Tik Tok Video worthy according to Tanya spying from the other side. He did not touch ground dived in to his trailer and slammed the door in a flash
with me laughing so loud he realized it was my and let Rip a few hard words
Everyone had such a laugh but Wessel did not think we were funny with his heart pounding out of his chest he even broke the inner door handel rushing in to the trailer and I had to open the door from outside.
Not to long after that we all were fooling around and the lion gave a Roar realy hard and it sounded he was right next to me we All jumped and everyone was on edge with the red lens on my touch we shined around and could see the red Eyes clearly just outside camp. We all thought after that it was time for everyone to go to Bed and just as things were quite we heard some load roars that really sounded in camp (We did search for spoor the next morning but could not find any)
Andreas from his rooftop tent I saw someone investigating with a torch
But saw nothing
I heard him still a few times during the night
But stayed in my bus
NOT THAT I WAS SCARED
FOR A LAZY LION AS MANNY CALLED HIM.