Day 4 – October 28 – Felix campsite to Hobas campsite, Desert drive

Let me preface this by saying: I hate wind.
I want very much to say that I liked today. But I didn’t. Driving in the desert, 40 degree heat, the wind coming in the windows was like preheating the oven and then opening it and standing with your face in the open door. I felt so miserable, my skin broke out completely in hives from the heat, wind and repeated applications of sunscreen. I have huge headache and despite drinking 5 liters of water today, I have peed twice. That is not an exaggeration.
Despite how absolutely horrible and cranky and whiney I feel, we did do and see some cool stuff today that I hope to appreciate more when I look back on them.
Started off with a three hour canoe trip down the Orange River, hot, and felt a little long, but beautiful and when we took a break, we stopped on the South Africa side of the river. So illegal. Had lunch at camp then headed out to our camp for tonight. Along the way we had a stop the experience the most deserted place I’ve ever been and we also saw zebras! We also had a little bit of truck overheating issues. At camp we set up tents, had a quick dip in the pool, stopped at the gift shop then headed out to watch the sunset at the fish river canyon. This canyon is the second largest in the world. It was amazing, there was a storm blowing in and lightning flashes every once in a while. Shower and dinner back at camp were also great and now off to sleep for 6 am departure tomorrow.