We were met by Rod and Sonia with their daughter Kaylie who unfortunately had been waiting since 07h00 our anticipated arrival time. Theey had passed 2 ellephant on way in but time we returned they had moved on. We travelled around 40 minutes to the Old Harararians site at Charara and settled in with their friends Nick and Sarah Harrison to await the senior Leaches who arrived with young Brendan Taylor in tow. Graham Leach spent part of the journey travelling in the back of the "bakkie"(ute) on top of the coolboxes and fishing gear as it was a bit squashed with the three of them in the front cab. Sonia and Rod went off fishing and went for a walk down to launch pad where there were 5 hippos' basking in the shallows plus a couple of crocs cruising around. The locals reported a recent tragedy where a local african boatman had been taken by a large croc whilst cleaning a boat.
Later in the aftenoon we went out in the two boats for a spot of fishing and we fished by "all species tree" as Elaine called it. We caught a number of bream, I caught a bottlenose which is an ugly looking things,and a reasonable size Mbiri which we tried to keep alive to put in Graham Leaches aquarium without success. We had a great meal of fried fish and chips with the fish battered with cornflakes mixed with a little garlic. Tasted amazing. An early night all under mosquito nets all 7 of us visitors lined up on the verandah like an old school dormitory.
We went early in the morning from Charara with all the suitcases and fishing gear, extra food and Graham Leach, Brendan Jelley, Brendon Taylor and Grahame Jelley all perched on top of all the luggae in the back of the bakkie just like a bunch of the local population. Certainly not within New Zealand law and quite a sight as you can imagine. Renene's sharp eyes spotted two kudu on the side of the road and apart from a few baboons' we did not see anything else. We loaded the houseboat "Silver-Fox" with all our baggage and set off around 10h00.
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