And then we got stuck........

It's 8am and we need to get our manager Crispin to the Hilux which is parked on the other side of the floodplain. The cruiser pick-up has left early for a conservancy meeting and all that's here is the 200 series land cruiser, we have our concerns as when we brought the 1.5 ton genset through the plain it has caused some damage to the make-shift channel...but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do...it's 40 degrees and Crispin has to go buy some ice in town...Ian takes Crispin accross.

It's 9am and Ian is not back yet, we decide to go look for him. Concern confirmed. STUCK

For the rest of the day there's not much to say accept stuck, stuck, stuck, we decide to spend the afternoon on the deck and wait for the pick-up to come back....

It's 4pm and the pick-up is back....everyone's exited for a brief 5 minutes and then we have 2 vehicles stuck....

We send the boat to go fetch the "scorro" at the Village, the "scorro" is an old beaten up Land Rover (and a name for "scrap" by the locals but it's a nice run-around for fetching wood etc) and no it will never make it to where the Land Cruisers are but it can bring a high lift jack and sand bags and with some good old man power we'll carry it accross.

It's 6pm, sun is setting, High-lift jack and sand bags later both vehicles are out! 

8pm we're sitting around the fire, T-Bone steak and Edgar our training Director's braai skills, the hippo's are starting to emerge from the water, we switch the genset off to take in our surroundings, we can hear the buffalo cross right behind our camp.

BLISS