Awoke with a start at 3am this morning with an awful stinging/crawling sensation in my right arm. Even in my half dazed state at that time of the morning recognized that it was probably a spider. I immediately flew out of bed and went on a frantic search for the beastie. I completely pulled the bed apart, but to no avail, my attacker was long gone and had left me with the most awful sensation in my arm. I put on some sting ointment, which didn't really do m...

We attempted to set off from Antelope Park this morning at 9am, however, this ended up being 10:30am as they had a problem with their card machine and George was having trouble paying the bill. Oh well, TIA. As soon as we were underway, I fell asleep, yes I am definitely back into the swing of overlanding if I can fall asleep on that truck, which is a hundred times more bumpy that either of the Dragoman trucks I was on. At about 12:30pm we reached the limits...

I managed to have a bit of a sleep in this morning, before going out to help get breakfast ready. At about 9am, the people who were going to see the elephants were heading off. Having seen elephants many times, I had no plans to go on this activity, however, I had nothing else to do, so I thought I would go along and see if there was a spare spot. There was a spot for me, so I got back into the ute and myself and the group were taken to where four elephants...

This morning after breakfast we were taken for an orientation walk around the park and went to a seminar to see what they do here, basically identical to the place I visited in Zambia two years ago, accept a lot cheaper. We had one of the guides explain everything to us and then we watched a short DVD showing us the activities. Most people ended up picking everything there was to do with the lions and I was told I could go on anything I wanted, as long as the...

The sunrise woke me up this morning as the room I am in doesn't have a wall that faces the outside of the boat. I watched the beautiful African sunrise from my bed and then briefly went back to sleep. I eventually decided that it was too hot to stay in bed and got up and did some work and journal writing on my laptop before breakfast. I had breakfast, which was spaghetti on toast, which I have really missed, while watching a heard of elephants wandering arou...