I have had a bit of tough last 2 months and decided to get away from it all. So I packed my instant tent, have to love the modern world, and headed off to the Pilanesberg for the weekend.
The weather was great, 360, sunny and hardly a cloud in the sky. I have to say I'm quite excited about camping, a chance to be a man and make do with the meagre of supplies I had brought and face the elements. Having a look at the folks around me I now realize that camping can be pretty serious. I mean who knew you could get DSTV (Digital Satellite Television) for your tent. Anyway the real reason I'm here is to take photographs, today was pretty rushed so no luck as yet but we'll see how tomorrow goes.
Lying in bed and thinking of the sounds around me, the Pilanesberg is quite similar but yet so different to Kruger. It's 9:30pm and still there are campers arriving, camp life doesn't settle down as early as it does in Kruger and children certainly do not go to bed at their usual time. It’s also quite interesting that unlike me many of the people visiting the camping site have no intention of entering the game reserve. The Camps are situated at the perimeter of the reserves as to have as little impact on the animals and environment as possible, unfortunately for me that means that there aren’t any real bush sounds in camp. No Lions roaring and no laughter from a hyena just a lonely jackal calling for a mate and the mumbled ramblings of Afrikaans form the camp site near me, sigh, and as the Klipdrift kicks the ramblings get louder. Pilanesberg definitely doesn't have the same policy on noise as other reserves do.
