Some more pics from yesterday.
Not quite avoiding a drenching.
I have to say it’s a crappy campsite, but had great showers. Deciding to get up early for us, around 7.15 am, to the sound of thunder not too far away. There had been the occasional light showers during the night but nothing serious. By about 9am and packing up the breakfast things, the thunder started to intensify and lightening flashed.
Starting to take the Caranex down the rain started slowly. Just as we were rolling it up to put in it’s sleeve, all hell broke loose and it poured. In seconds were were both drowned. Just as well it didn’t pour like that during the night as the only flattish site we could find meant the Caranex was in a slight hollow. By the time I hoisted the tent up onto the roof, the hollow was full of water!! The joys of camping but we have been truly blessed, with little rain in nearly 6 months!
Where too next?
Parked outside the ablutions block, we contemplated the next move. After spending some time scouring iOverlander for onward campsites, Jen said “the only one I can find in a modest distance, is due east 80k’s, not far from the resort town of Punta del Este.
We need a day off and for the last couple of day’s I’ve been struggling to stay focused behind the wheel. 80k’s sounded good to me. The drive was on an excellent dual carriageway. Uruguay is a very different country to the rest of South America, as I think I have already intimated.
Our new camp is massive, and well patronised. Most of the sites are under trees, with no direct sunshine. We need sunshine or rather avoidance of shade, to keep the batteries topped up.
Driving around the site we have established ourselves on a flattish grassy site in the open. The only downside is we are not too far from a busy road. It’s only 1pm.
By 4pm we have a washing line up already full. Lets hope the bedding dries before nightfall! Jen’s already talking about the next campsite so it does not look like tomorrow, Saturday will be a rest day either!! I think we are both looking forward to the razzamatazz that Brazil offers. Sleeping is becoming our biggest challenge. It’s so hot and sticky at night that we are not getting uninterrupted rem sleep.
Today is overcast and warm 29.6degC and it wont go much lower at night. Muggy.
Uruguay is the first country where we have experienced 5G wifi. Not that it has done much for us as we seem to be always on the fringes. With 5G there have been issues with twinning our devices from the one source. I spent some time with an Antel rep yesterday and have managed to cobble something together so i am getting wifi from Jens phone and using the Bluetooth to power the Mac. We have 120gb of data to play with.
Footnotes.
While driving towards Montevideo yesterday, we passed a huge warehouse with PGG Wrightson on the side. PGG Wrightsons are specialists in the rural economy and it’s great to see a New Zealand company established overseas.
Message for John. Please pass on my thanks to Fantu. Before we headed south to Africa two years ago, Fantu gave us a anti-histamine pen. Yesterday, after stepping on, a bee that was laying on the wet sand, my foot swelled up. On applying some contents of the pen, the swelling and pain, reduced rapidly..:) We hope you both enjoy your trip to Ethiopia.
Playing around with mileages, we have now driven 84,000+ miles or 135,000+ k’s which equates to approx. 3.375 times around the equator and Poki is still going strong..:)
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I’ve passed your thanks to Fantu.