This morning is the first morning of our duty rosta. So far, Kanyo has directed operations for breakfast, dinner etc and we have mucked in ad hoc. From today we are all divided into 4 teams on a rotating rosta. All except Team D – Tenacious D. Tenacious D are the firestarters, responsible for lighting the fire for the breakfast/dinner cooks, laying out the breakfast tables, etc. Tenacious D have to be first up every morning no matter what time kick off. Tenacious D don’t rotate on the rosta. Guess what team I’m on. No more lies in for me!
A few of us have signed up to go horse riding along Lake Victoria this morning. Horses were checked by one expert and deemed to be fit at the stable but the horse they propose for me to ride this morning does not appear to be much bigger than a Shetland pony. As I swing effortlessly (!) on to Toffee’s back I can almost hear her creaking under the strain. Our 2 guides are not accompanying us on horseback and trot alongside us. The kids shout and wave as we walk along the main road. The main road? It seems no-one had appraised our guides that we were to hack along the Lake side and not take the road back to Hells Gate. Oh well. This Is Africa! We manage a short canter back from Hells Gate before I take pity on Toffee and we just make it back to camp and time for a quick shower and pack up the tent before we watch the All Blacks trounce the Springboks. We set off for Lake Nakuru with some very happy Kiwi campers.
After the match we’re on the road to Lake Nakuru and a campsite owned by a former Absolute employee. Despite his experience he didn’t seem to factor the size of overland trucks into his site design and it takes Dickson some considerable manoeuvring to get us onto the site almost taking out one of the popups.
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