After an amazing nights sleep we woke up to the sound of birds in the trees outside our two windows. The bed is super comfortable, and I really didn't want to get up :D what tempted me however was the promise of a delicious breakfast, so we roused ourselves and got dressed. We get a large breakfast included in the food price, and if we ate it all we could have a cup of tea or coffee, juice, a bowl of cereal, yogurt, fruit and a cooked breakfast! After we had made a cup of tea and coffee, we were given a little slip to tick off what it was that we wanted to eat. We both chose bacon, French toast and poached egg. Because there are just the two of us, they had taken sausages out of the freezer the night before and not bacon, but they were still delicious :D The French toast was huge, and we were also given two pieces of toast each, so needless to say we ate more than enough to last us till dinner!
Last night June and Clive told us about the farm, and explained that the
Regions owners had actually started with a bush camp before building the main lodge with the view of the gorgeous dam. They had said it had been abandoned so we jumped in the landy to go check it out. The camp is built next to another dam and is a number of thatched little houses on stilts that obviously used to house people in sleeping bags, and built behind these houses are open air bathrooms :D I can understand why Clive keeps the place from falling down, it's great! They have groups of school kids come through and stay there, and I used to go on similar outdoor education program's with my school and I think it's a wonderful idea! After fully exploring the camp sight, we decided to head to another interesting spot on the farm called sand cliffs.
On the way to the camp we had passed a very very dead and quite smelly kudu, and on the way back Dan really wanted to stop and have a closer look. (Sorry to all who are squeamish!!) Thankfully we were stood and parked down wind from the animal and so we could have a look without the stench! The buck was enormous, and we couldn't figure out how it may have died, but assumed it may have been from starvation. I wasn't that enamoured with the number of maggots obviously enjoying their meal, so I got swiftly back into the car, and told Dan to get in so we could leave :D Driving on the road away from the buck was disgusting, because the smell that the wind was taking away from us whilst we were next to it was revolting!
Once we left the buck we drive down the other side of the fork in the road and had a look at the 'sand cliffs'. The sand cliff were surrounded by quite a large dry riverbed that looked too soft to drive on. We had a look from a small distance and started to find our way back to the lodge. Snob after turning around we found parts of a skeleton on the side of the road and got out of the car to have a look at the scattered bones. Not far from the first bone that we saw was the skull of a rather large kudu. The animal had clearly been dead for quite some time and all of the bones were very clean and appeared almost fake. Jenny and I each took a photo with the large skull and horns. And immediately after getting back in the car we got a bit turned around and didn't know exactly where we were or where we were going. We wandered around the lands for a little while and found our way to 'flat rock', a large expanse of exposed (you guessed it) flat rock. I let my inner child out and insisted on driving across the rock much to Jenny's dismay. Jenny assured me she knew precisely where we were and eventually we found our way back to our house.
Jenny had also discovered yesterday that there was a 'say yes to the dress' marathon on tv today so we spent much of the day watching more wedding programs. Somehow I foolishly thought these program's would no longer be interesting to Jenny once we we married but I was wrong. We spent the entire day up until dinner watching these programs until we headed to the main lodge and joined our hosts for a dinner of fried mushrooms, a main of beef, and some apple crumble pie for dessert. All in all, a good day.
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