Saturday 20th March 2010
In typical African style Joan was in no hurry to get me to the airport but at 10am I met the GVI group at the information desk. After meeting the expedition members we started to travel north, packed into a minibus with luggage blocking the aisle. I sat with Gary, a 23 year old police intelligence officer from Stoke. The group is a mix of Brits and Americans and includes some older explorers than those I met in Cape town.
The 5 hour journey to the reserve was actually 9 hours, including a stop at Polokwane to switch into a less comfortable minibus. As we travelled across the Tropic of Capricorn the landscape became more scrubby and remote, but we were rewarded with the sight of a small group of giraffes, their silhouetted heads popping up above the low canopy. Later we saw wildebeest and a brown hyena in the twilight.
We arrived after dark to discover absolutely no electricity at the base, therefore we found our accommodation tent and set up mosquito nets using head torches and the challenge of the next two weeks then hit me. We ate and went to bed in immense heat and darkness.
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