With Mari-Louise and Anita’s birthday in March we all went to Matombe Camp in Botswana’s Tuli Block.
This was an excellent opportunity to test the bus, so we all piled in and put it through its paces.
Hennie and Nerina also joined us an we had a great weekend.
For me personally an memorable moment of the weekend was when we met a Servel Cat on the local game ranger’s (Bruce) farm.
This animal has been in the cage for about a year. He was part of a breeding program attempt which was struck by disaster when the person driving the program succumbed to Malaria. All the cats in the program was also killed by some mystery illness which is apparently breed specific. This one cat was left behind, apparently immune to the illness. Adri has been trying to get some money and sponsorship to get the program back on its feet. I have a vision to help out by getting a website up where the animals can be viewed and donations made.
The bus performed well but on the way back the clutch acted up. It turned out that the hydraulic system was full of gunk, which after a decent bleed, left the clutch in perfect condition.
The brakes all really were not great, but luckily Adri advised me to install larger ventilated disk brakes which were installed after the weekend. They are still new, but seem to be much better.
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