Our plan was to continue driving down the coast on a deep
sand 4x4 track to Lutzville past the lighthouse.
However, 5 km down to track we had a major issue
with the clutch and gear box. We were
completely unable to get into any gear and for a while thought that we were
actually stuck. In the end Ian managed
to get into first gear by rocking the Landrover forwards and back. We had been having a few issues and the gears
had been making some weird noises over the last few days so we were not too
surprised and decided we had better be sensible and turn round, and head to
Cederberg on the main road. Once off the
4x4 track the gears seemed to be behaving again and we had no further issues
until we reached Clan William where we stopped to restock for the next couple of
days. Unfortunately we had not left the
Landy in gear and once again we were stuck for 15 minutes without being able to
get it into gear. This time we finally
resolved it by getting it into low gear and getting it moving forwards enough
to open the gear gate. We managed to
nurse it to the campsite and parked up leaving it in gear to help ensure we
would be able to get back out!
The campsite was in a lovely location by a river with the
mountains above us. The camp was a
favourite location of SA families and we were surrounded by young children
cycling and running back and forth into the river – not the solitude we have
been used to! The evening’s
entertainment was the discovery of two very large spiders on the back of the
door in the ladies shower. I didn’t
actually see them but I heard the screams and lots of women and children
running away (I had showered in there about 10 minutes earlier). Ian did the macho thing and got them out – he
did say they were very big (the size of your spread palm), black and
hairy! I checked behind the doors after
that.
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