Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Looking after Grey Matters camp deep in the delta, petrol is diesel !

greetings from a sunny delta. We've now into what looks to be our second full day without rain,  and our solar power system has recovered.
Yesterday the trio went about there afternoon as normal, medications applied and off into the bush in a westerly direction. returning just before 8 and all was well.
Sunny pumped water, and I gave the batteries an extra boost with the generator, at this point we decided to check all our fuel supplies, and lucky that we did... we have 5l in the water pump, 25l in the generator, just over 1/4 tank in the 3F and  30l petrol in the 200l drum. we discovered that the new 175l drum is diesel not petrol! we are fortunate to find this error now. We have enough petrol to last 5 weeks so this can be addressed once Doug is back in Maun.
A quiet night with just a lion call far off to the North, although the hyena track were on the road this morning as normal.
Today the trio departed towards the East, Moks is cutting grass at the laundry while Two is working in the education area, which is starting to look quite smart. Sunny is going to empty the remaining 30l petrol should we have a means to get the empty drum to Maun.

enjoying the bush Stuart

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