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Again we were in the air before the sun rose.
The air was smooth but we had a headwind. I found that if I went down to 50ft above the trees I had a tailwind. We followed the road, so we flew at tree height above the road and enjoyed the view and the tailwind.
There are very, very few inhabitants in that part of the world, and the trees were so thick that flying above the road was a good idea anyway.
At Mangetti Dune in Bushmanland we buzzed Malita's
home and our great friends Andre and Martine came running out, followed by Malita. At the airport was Andre and Martine's DTA Voyageur trike in a circle of cut thornbushes. The only way to keep the Hyenas at bay is
with a wall of thornbushes – the Hyenas love to eat tyres, rubber bits and cloth wings. The male Hyenas only eat aluminium when they are showing off to the females in heat! Amazing what horny males will do! Actually
it's also amazing what horny females will do! My imagination is working overtime! Enough of that.
We had a great reunion with old friends. Olivier,
Greg and I stayed with Andre and Martine in France for about a week, and it was really good to see them again. Malita is a doctor at the clinic in the tiny little settlement at Mangetti Dune. The residents of
Mangetti Dune are all Bushmen. This is also Olivier's part-time home. He worked at the clinic for the Red Cross organisation for a few years before they pulled out and handed the clinic over to the Namibian
government. Before the Red Cross took it over, it belonged to the South African military who used it as a base to train the Bushmen trackers. It was here that Olivier did his first hours on his Windlass Trike after
obtaining his licence and it was on his first flight to Mangetti Dune that he got the idea to fly across Africa in a trike.
We had a relaxing day, eating, sleeping, and
chatting. Olivier started his Land Rover to charge the battery.
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