Day 2 Namaqualand – Gariep (Orange) River

Day 2 Namaqualand – Gariep (Orange) River
An early start, we head north via the distant town of Springbok, best known for its diamonds, copper and spring flowers.  We then proceed to our camp located right beside the Namibian border. The camp is situated on the riverbank that forms the border between South Africa and Namibia.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

26th December 2013
Everything was still closed and it was just a long drive to our next campsite, for Lisa and me the scenery wasn't exciting as it was exactly the same as we would see on a country road in Australia, big wheat farms, wheat silos and gum trees. There was one difference, out here they have ostriches not kangaroos.

I've also given Lisa a new nickname, Captain Cranky Pantz. It came about because of Marilyn's seat rotation policy. Lisa really liked the back seats by the door and wasn't happy when we got the nod to move.

We stopped for water & ice at a place called Springbok, it's dry, it's desert and they had no ice in any shop. Water was also a problem as Lisa and I seemed to be the only people with water, but luckily for the group I found a shop that had lots of 5 litre bottles. The only hiccup came when one of the trekkers came down with a mysterious illness, apparently Danielle (Danny) could have contracted it before she left Israel. Danny is an American student living in Israel. Zenzo left us and took Marilyn to find a doctor, it took about 3 hours which we spent inside a Wimpy store using their free Wi-fi and drinking strawberry milkshakes, slightly boring but that's group adventure trekking. Lina Eva you know might thoughts.

From there it was onto the camp, on the way we saw the Namibian border crossing. If we had gone straight we would have crossed the border but alas we turned right to run parallel with the Gariep / Orange River (the one we saw at the Lesotho border crossing).
The road, if you can call it that was nothing but gravel corrugation for about 10 Klm's, it was one big long "whoops there it is".

The campsite its self was great, really well set out and we got some nice soft grass to set our tent up on, but we soon had all the other tents around us. I thought of you Esther because they were in for some sweet, sweet snoring music...

Now one difference between this group and our first trekking family is that when Shingi asked if any one was interested in canoeing there was only 4 takers Juram, Annabella, Lisa and me. Eventually Anja and Hildagard (Hille) the two young German girls decided to join us.