As the birds started singing, we zipped open our tents and slowly woke up. We ate our camping breakfast of premixed Pronutro, milk powder and sugar and packed our daypacks full of snacks.
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The dawn chorus started with offensively loud and persistent quacking from a pair of Egyptian geese – sweet music to our ears. It meant we had survived our long night of terror! As the early morning light blissfully luminated our tent, we unzipped our door, lay quietly and watched the sun rise slowly over the African bush.
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The Lonely Bull Trail is a primitive backpacking trail in one of the large wilderness areas in the northern Kruger National Park.
The trail stretches over 4 days and 3 nights and we had to carry our own tents, water and food and camp rough in the bush, with two armed guides to show us the way and make sure we did not get eaten.
This was the first multi-day hike for all of us and although we did loads of research, there was an enormous and somewhat scary unknown ahead.
My biggest fears:
So with these fairly serious animal and ablution concerns, combined with my track record as a seasoned unhappy camper, why on earth did we choose to do this?
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When you live in Nelson Mandela Bay, you are spoilt for choice with surrounding weekend destinations in close proximity. Whichever way you go – East, West or inland – there are places to explore and enjoy. We chose to spend our latest holiday weekend at The Crags, a short two hour drive Westwards from PE.
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When we headed for a week in the Central Drakensberg recently, our goal was to do as little as possible – this was our annual holiday and we badly needed a break. We booked a week’s timeshare at the Drakensberg Sun and headed into the mountains dreaming of long lazy morning lie-ins, afternoon naps and plenty of early nights – completely contrary to our usual action-packed adventures.
After a day or two, we had done exactly what we planned – absolutely nothing. Although very relaxing for some of us, cabin fever started to kick in for others and our teens were starting to bounce off the walls and each other. So, we reluctantly emerged from our beds, grabbed our backpacks and headed off each day to see what the Central Berg has in store for adventurous families.
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