I camped for two nights on Kukonje Island. Someone drove past the first morning early at around 7:30am. The sign on the side of their bakkie said something about conservation, but anyway I never saw them again. The other camper that was nearby moved out later in the morning leaving just me.
I attempted to fix the intermittent problem of the engine not starting. So I pulled the fusible links apart and filed clean connections. It got hot in the afternoon, probably got to 36C. I had a shower in the evening using my hot water supply in the roof water heater, and I had to add colder water to it , it was so warm. When the sun set, a warm wind sprung up, it was way to hot to sit inside the camper. I sat outside until about 9pm, and even then it was about 29C.
In the morning when I got up it was about 20C. I have to wait until I get enough sunlight on the solar panels before I can turn on the starlink. My two AGM batteries, now nearly 7 years old are just not much good any more. I packed up and headed out. It was back the way I came 10km across the pan until I turn south. I noticed just as I got to the pan tracks of someone who had driven maybe 10m off the main track, and had got terribly bogged. I met a car coming the other way crossing the pan.
I turned south towards Makobelo, about 50km away. At Makobelo I stopped at the small supermarket looking for something to boost my supplies, but there really wasn’t much. I then turned south again towards Mmashoro. It was about 70km, along what Tracks4Africa said was just a track, but actually was a pretty good road. I stopped for lunch part way along under a track that ran under some powerlines. I pulled out onto the bitumen A14 at Mmashoro. About 30km down the road I was going to stay in a wild camp that I had found in 2019, and stayed twice. I had added it to iOverlander, and a few people had used it since. The road going in however had got more overgrown, lots of bashing the sides of the camper.
Maybe I have fixed the intermittent starting problem, it’s worked OK all day. Maybe all the Strange things I did like rocking the car in 4th gear and banging the starter motor with a hammer were a total waste of time?
That might have been me who got bogged, depending on where exactly that was.
Nevermind, not me, please delete my comments.