Well I've had my night of luxury in Duwisib castle didn't have to put up
the tent stayed in a room inside the castle, a nice breakfast all cooked and
provided for me, nice hot cup of coffee. It's a coolish start to the day and today I'm
actually trekking back to the desert
because one of the other areas I want to visit
is Naukluft, the Naukluft Mountains. Now there is a campsite inside the Naukluft
mountains inside the Naukluft National Park right on the edge of the desert so
today I haven't got a long drive but as usual probably take longer than I
anticipated time because I will amble my way along the roads and then take
photographs of everything I find interesting which along that route is a
lot even though there's not a great deal there scenery eye popping although it's a bit
windy today so you might get a lot of dust and wind in the air so then i'm going
to head into the neck of mountains I'm going to be camping again hmm
and I've definitely got a slow puncture,
tyre is going down so I'm going to have to change it before I go any further
oh, pain. Ugh.
oh boy, I think I can see this tyre is heading down
[chuckle] well after stopping half an hour ago
to help somebody else change a tire looks like I'm gonna change my own spare tire
ah, not what I wanted, but there we go as that's what we carry spare for
there's no, you know, you
don't call AA or the RAC or those sort of guys out here, out here you do
it yourself. So if you're gonna hire a car come out here remember to learn how
to change a tire
wheel spanner, Jack this is an unusual Jack
I'm looking for a tool, I think this is it
there are some strange things in here I have no idea what they are
I've got a tool so I can lower my spare wheel
so handbrake on make sure it's nice and secure, cars not going to roll away ....
ok, none of these is the right tool
oh maybe that is
going to find out
oh so much sand, it's not fun in here
After failing to work out you put this
pole together it comes in three parts yeah you insert a little hole in the
back you try to hook something that drops down the spare wheel
I'm just going to put my other spare on
there, spare tire changed.
now just need to put everything away, pack it away, clean the
dust off everything, head in to the park still might catch sunset if I'm lucky
now where do all these bits go
Ah, reception
good evening,
good evening
how are you
great sorry for the wait
that's alright, today is the thirtieth? twenty ninth?
twenty ninth
the whole day long
all day
right
and it's 2017?
yeah 2017
I've got the right year then
choose any available camp site of your choice
campsites still in the same place straight down?
yeah all the way down
lovely thank you very much
okay I've selected my campsite
driven up to it and it's raised on a little like cliff edge down
this side quite a tumble into the river so I want to turn round and back into it
and what I don't want to do is
fall off the edge of the cliff
that would not be a very good idea
did'nt really want to do that either, oops
some big rocks there, I'll have to check the front of the car
the car has done so well until the last day
and then, well
sorry rock, hope you haven't destroyed
too much of the car
there we go we're in position now, far enough away from the edge of the cliff, I think.
I'll go and check on that
this is final set up the
roof tent night
in with the stopwatch
are you ready?
am I ready?
this is quite sad. Press the button and go for it
okay here we go
we are done
and, oh come on, quit stalling.
oh one minute fifty eight seconds
the record
but gonna miss it
it's not very level either is it? the beds a bit wonky
does that look any better?