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... been leaking down for some time and the top half now offers little warmth. I had thermals, fleece, wind stopper jacket and a baby blanket I picked up during the day. Yet one still shivered with the cold. I drank nothing in preceding hours to avoid a trek to the toilets in the cold, but somehow I still had to go twice. I ended up doing exercises and dancing around in the toilet block to raise my body temperature. Then this time stuff the blanket inside the sleeping bag and I was just ...
Wobbly man and hobble along
... to the hike....it ended up a full 8 hrs day hike. We worked out about 15kms including a bloody great mountain!
I'm in abit of post hike pain and cant walk, and Dan is fed up with his wobbly man syndrome...what a pair!
After continuous deliberation we are continuing with our trip...chilled time is what Dan needs and we can get that here, and we are only a flight away from anywhere we need to be.
The flight has been moved to Tuesday and we are planning to be on it.
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Rock Art of the San People
... from archeology, apparently this site in Kamberg has been very important to historian's understanding of the bushmen who lived in the area and their way of life in the Drakensberg.
Most of the paintings were of Eland, they are quite common in the Drakensberg and seen as very important to the bushmen. They are the biggest antelope in Africa and have a lot of fat making it a very valuable asset to the bushmen for looking after ...
St Lucia Wetlands
... load and unload on the move and even drivers shift changes are carried out whilst moving, albeit slowly, the reason being that the engines cannot generate sufficient power to pull the vast amount of wagons from a standing start. We were told that the previous week they had a major derailment which they've only just cleared, it took that long, but there again the train was hauling 400,000 tonnes, can you believe that 400,000 tonnes! Anyway I ...
Richards Bay and the Game Reserve
... eating habits, they have a pointed mouth designed to eat from trees whereas White Rhinos have square mouths to graze along the grass. As if seeing them wasn't rare enough, the baby of the three had no ears, just holes where they should be, no one we spoke to could give us an explanation of this. Just as we thought we had used up all our luck, my auntie spotted Wild Dog in the bushes. There are only approx. 40 in the 960 sq km ...