So there we were stranded in the middle of a desert, next to a road at 3 Degrees Celsius, a dead horse in the road, a vehicle which was damaged beyond repair and cannot be moved.
If you missed Part 1 you can read it here
So what to do… First things first. The safety of the road users. We switched on all the lights and torches that we had on us. We starting flagging down the massive trucks that comes past every 20 minutes or so at around 140 km/h, *or it feels like that anyway as we do not want them to hit the dead horse. All of them must’ve had delivery schedules as they did slow down a bit but nobody actually stopped to understand if there was any injuries.
My phone is on roaming so I tried to phone the South African emergency line to find the number of their Namibian counterparts. Luckily nobody was hurt – not even a scratch – we were very lucky as this could’ve been much worse.
One of our friends Wim, bought a Namibian Sim at the border so we decided to try it out. I must say that I didn’t have much hope to find anybody at 03:00 in the morning at the Help Desk, as it was the only number we had. We phoned and it was amazing service.
The help-desk consultant immediately transferred us to the police in Karasburg. We were only about 19 Km from Karasburg and the police arrived about 30 minutes from the time we made the call. According to the police we were very lucky as the previous accident that they attended one week earlier, had no survivors.
The police arranged to have the horse moved off the road…and a tow-truck arrived around 04:30 for our rescue.
Next morning in Karasburg :
Write off!!
We spend a lot of time at the Karasburg Police Station
Now what do we do … At First we decided to return to South Africa, but then we had second thoughts … We already drove 13 hours to get into Namibia and my vehicle was parked in the Nissan Garage in Uppington, only about 2 hours away. The manager of the tow-in company suggested that I bum a lift with his daughter, who is on her way to Uppington…
Our Hunting trip was back on!!!
The guest house where we stayed
My friends checked into the guest house in I was off to fetch my vehicle. Obviously now there were much more paperwork to arrange, as I never planned to take my vehicle across the border. My poor wife (
So the next morning, at first light, I left South Africa again, to fetch my hunting buddies in Karasburg. It was now a different experience to drive to Namibia, as we went through this part in the dark.
It must be the straightest I have ever driven.
10 Minutes later and a could take at least 5 more pictures and it would’ve still be straight!!!
Check the Commando Bird nests, next to the road.
I picked up my friends in Karasburg around 09:00 am Namibian time and we were off hunting at last.
I will share the final part of the story in a follow up post.
Happy Steeming!
