Not too early up this morning, breakfast at half seven to leave at eight thirty. A small amount of consternation as we receive an email from Air France telling us our flight has been re-scheduled. Instead of leaving JoBurg at seven we will now not be leaving until ten to midnight (groan). This means we will miss our pre-paid no refund bus connection from Heathrow back to South Wales. Hopefully we will be able to catch a later one on the hop so to speak.
All on the bus for the trip back to the airport - our guides still spotting things along the way. Luckily the road is a smooth Tarmac so this pleases our driver no end.
Pass some salt pans. The guide tells us that can sometimes only have rain once in twenty years or even longer. When it does rain he tells this area and other salt pans like it are covered in Flamingos. How they know where to go when it is not a regular occurrence is a mystery.
Also it means we get to see a Tawny Eagle pick up a Puff Adder snake that was taking in some sunshine on the warm road. It flew off with the dead snake dangling from its talons. Exciting stuff.
Pass some salt pans. The guide tells us that can sometimes only have rain once in twenty years or even longer. When it does rain he tells this area and other salt pans like it are covered in Flamingos. How they know where to go when it is not a regular occurrence is a mystery.
Also it means we get to see a Tawny Eagle pick up a Puff Adder snake that was taking in some sunshine on the warm road. It flew off with the dead snake dangling from its talons. Exciting stuff.
A group tea break at the airport and some time to fill in the last two days sightings in our books.
The plane is quite small (50 seats) and is full of business women and men flying back to JoBurg. Luckily, even though they try to take one of our hand luggage bags from us (as it was too big allegedly), it was pointed out that the person in front who had a bag twice the size of ours had been allowed through with it, and so we were waved on.
Parting is such sweet sorrow (or something along those lines anyway) - say goodbye to the rest of the group as we all go our separate ways when we reach Johannesburg.
Through customs and have a sit to compose ourselves before shopping ourselves out at the Duty Free. Time for a meal before travelling to the gate to wait for that midnight take off.
