Day 2 - Martins Drift to Elephant Sands

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Elephant Sands 

We managed to leave Kwa Nogeng at 08h15 after fining Clauidia US$1 for leaving clothes on the bathroom door after declaring the rooms clear.

After a 500 km stretch from Martins Drift we arrive at the access road to the lodge and upon stopping for a bakkie stuck in deep sand we ourselves get stuck, but, take note Michael, we luckily had our sand tracks and were out in two ticks. Other than the first stretch, which was full of pot holes, Claudia managed to scared the proverbial s---t out of us trying to avoid them and they were not ordinary pot holes they had been neatly cut out into squares and oblongs and deepened ready for repair, we eventually arrived intact at 15h00.

We stay here for another day chilling before we set of for Chobe Safari Lodge, but we cannot complain about Elephant Sands not living up to its reputation we have seen many elephants from the time we arrived and they came and went throughout the night to a waterhole that is kept topped up by the lodge, they are fussy elephants though they only want the fresh water that is pumped into a trough. This was very evident when Denise was mocked charged a couple of times because she, the elephant that is, was frustrated because the pump was not switched on and the water was finished.

They say that up to 200 elephant visit this waterhole in a 24 hour period and you can sit and watch them from as close as 5 metres a truly wonderful experience. We may do a game drive later as there is a pack of 28 wild dogs in the conservancy as well as a host of other wildlife