Into the unknown
10th August
(Kids at Cecil John Rhodes gravesite)
It’s amazing what happens when you just let things flow…Yesterday we arrived at the National parks office in Robert Mugabe - boulevard Bulawayo and booked Black Eagle lodge and started chatting to a guy who was booking a camp in Hwange and he suggested that after we had spent the night in The Matopos we should head up to Hwange and spend a couple of nights at a picnic site (another word for private camp site) so we booked a spot that is in the middle of the Game Park allegedly it has running water and a toilet !! And most importantly it is fenced in as the park has the big 5 !
Onto The Matopos and Black Eagle Lodge - we were the only people staying in the camp. There are 2 houses and quite a few chalets all clean and self contained. We have the most amazing view of a dam and it is quite magical out here. The kids are in 7th heaven climbing rocks and hiking through hills. Rhoda, the lady who cleans the houses, made the most amazing camp fire for us.
The plan today is to go to Hwange so I have got the picnic lunch ready. You have to be pretty organised as there is absolutely nothing to buy out here and this is a concept the kids cannot grasp!
Hugo decided that the takkies I had packed for him where not “hip enough” for our camping trip and he went about finding a new pair of shoes yesterday. This was when we were still in Bulawayo and he wasn’t prepared to believe me when I said there weren’t any. So he went about asking the locals where he could buy them and they sent him from pillar to post and wherever he went they didn’t have anything for him. He was completely devastated.
We are on our way to Hwange today …I haven’t slept in a tent before so this should be quite and experience …Feeling a little anxious.