Warthogs and WiFi

It has been over a week since the Landrover clutch was replaced and so far so good. The gearbox remains attached to the engine and the car drives perfectly. The only thing we can fault about Landrover this time is their enthusiasm, After Sales phoned and woke us at 7.30am this morning to ask how the vehicle was driving!

Besides making sure the Landrover was behaving, we've been busy on the internet, free WiFi courtesy of the lovely Cafe Dijo here in Gaborone. Besides free internet we have been enjoying some of the best food we've had in Africa, loads of salads and not a piece of braai meat in sight (you've no idea how much that means to us!)

Despite being the only people camping at Mokolodi Game Reserve we've not been alone. Every morning the resident warthog family have been checking us out for food. As this is a re-habilitation reserve we've broken our golden rule of not feeding the wildlife. The hogs have a preference for apples and brown bread but refuse to eat carrots, which must be a first for a member of the pig family!

We've been kept awake at night by impala doing their mating grunts, a noise that sounds very similar to leopard and takes a bit of getting used to!

Underfoot we've struggled to avoid armoured ground crickets; that have chosen this moment to be out en masse. Triggered by the first good rains for two years they are swarming around and are not averse to eating each other when they get the opportunity! As long as they don't start nibbling us we don't mind them being around!

Tomorrow we are heading north to Francistown then Nata, before heading west to Maun in the centre of Botswana. By the end of next week we hope to be meeting up with Isaac & Liesel for a trip in to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.