It was a day of fun and silly games with the girls.
We left camp just as dark clouds were descending on us. But heading north we managed to avoid the heavy rains that we saw had fallen at camp on our return.
Having made a catapult the other day to shoot down Baobab fruits, as the trees are impossible to climb, the girls were soon fighting as to who was to use the catapult first. So of course dad had to make another one. Then we drove around looking for a tree full of fruits. Half an hour later we’d managed to shoot down 3 fruit. And gee were they are yummy to eat. The fruit has a hard casing that I was only able to crack open by pounding it with a big rock. But baboon manage to bite these fruit open. Inside is a white pith that encloses many seeds. It is this pith that is very refreshing to suck and is sometimes soaked in water to make a refreshing drink.
Then it was some crazy driving, this time with Lindy behind the wheel.
This was followed by dad do some dare-devil driving down steep river banks into the Chiredzi river. Once in the river we all bailed out the vehicle and left it to drive itself away. The fun was then for the girls to run after it and catch up to the car hoping it didn’t suddenly get traction on hard ground and suddenly take off away from us.
And of course the day wouldn’t be done without tree climbing fitted in there somewhere.
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