Addo Elephant Park

 Saturday 23/10/21

This magnificent aloe is in the camp area

We arrived in Addo yesterday afternoon and had a quick look around the camping site.  We had booked one of the larger caravan pitches as we had read that the tenting pitches were quite small but could only get a booking for three nights.  We found that we would fit onto one of the open tent pitches so quickly changed our booking to five nights, which suits us better.

It's not called 'Addo Elephant Park' for nothing!

We decided to set up our camp immediately as we have never done a full install of the tent so weren't sure how long it would take.  It was a good decision as it started raining as soon as we had the fly sheet on, so we took shelter inside.  It soon became apparent that the tent was anything but watertight and her performance earned her the nick-name 'colander'.  

We've had a few showers and we think it might be that a lack of use has dried the material out and it needs to 'swell the fibres' to settle down, but we  travelled to a local agent in PE today to get some sealer. We'll apply it as soon as we have a really hot day which should sort the problem out.

Toni spotted this beauty, we think it's a Cape Cobra.

On the way back we entered the park through the southern gate and had a lovely drive up to the camp which took us most of the day, as all the photo's show. We're settling down to the pace of park life and getting used to tent-camping so looking forward to the rest of our stay.