Addo Trip

By Tamara in Camping

One morning in mid July, our Suzuki Jimny packed to the brim with assorted camping gear, map in hand and with just enough savings, Imar and I departed on a week-long camping trip to Addo Elephant National Park in the Eastern Cape. We had been dying to go camping for a while, and despite our recent streak of bad-weather-luck, we decided to take the risk and go camping anyway.

En route to Addo, we stayed overnight at the ever-picturesque Ebb and Flow rest camp at Wilderness National Park. The following day we traveled via Jeffrey’s Bay to see if we could catch a glimpse of the ASP J-Bay Open.

We had amazing weather in Addo with temperatures reaching 28 degrees – a welcome break from the cold Cape of Storms. We saw so much and felt very blessed. We had the best site in the camp, complete with a big tree and surrounded by a sheltering Spekboom hedge. On the way back, we stayed over in Wilderness again where we managed to snap a picture of the colourful little Malachite Kingfisher.

Posted 25 August 2014
Tags: Addo Elephant National Park, birds, camping, Eastern Cape, nature, SANParks, winter