Bradley and Abigail woke up early at 6.00pm so Paul decided to get us all up to see the sun come up; we made our way up the spiral staircase to the roof of our lodge and waited. We stayed for an hour watching a group of pelicans fly overhead and a couple of vultures sat in a distant tree we then showered and made our way to the restaurant for breakfast. On arriving at the restaurant no one was about so we decided to have a stroll on the beach meeting Maurice on the way, he was going to pick up the staff at Kartong. We waded along the waters edge the sea was still too warm at 8.30am eventually reaching the end of the bay and back. Abigail and Bradley playing follow the leader, picking shells and chasing the odd crab which appeared out of its hole in the sand. Then back up for breakfast, we sat and chatted to Maurice and ate a selection of fruit, toasted bread and muesli with natural yogurt, slowly the other volunteers appeared finally finishing breakfast at 11.00am we headed for the beach to spend the rest of the day.

Abigail and Bradley weren’t short of a hand to hold whilst they enjoyed jumping over the waves and body boarding. After a long soak in the water I decided to lie in the sun whilst Paul built the children a sand motor boat although It didn’t take me long before I took shelter under a thatched roof sun shade from the hot sun. We ate lunch at Sandele, then at around 4.00pm set off for home taking Georgia, Felix and Emily back with us and stopping to fill the tyre with some air, definitely a slow puncher. The journey was much quicker home helped by Felix amusing the children with eye spy and counting games. After all the drop offs and unloading some crates at Safari Garden we enjoyed the rest of the evening relaxing at home and went to bed early.