LOISABA, KENYA: Our drive today is to Lisaba Wilderness Reserve. It's a difficult enough drive and the
terrain is very rough on the entire route.We also had to do a river
crossing which was quite deep followed by a very steep and slippery
climb out the other side.
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The journey took almost 3 hours and
on arrival, Bombay, who is head honcho in charge of a rather large fleet
of land rovers, guided us onto the pit. A complete service was carried
out & we've discovered our brake pads are quite worn, even
though the brakes feel really good. There are two pads on each disc so
the pads were switched around and the least worn one was now in the best
position. We think that'll get us back to Cape Town but we'll change
them if there's any doubt.
Unfortunately, Bombay didn't have suitable
brake pads as his fleet is the Land Rover Defender.
Sadly,
for us anyway, Jim & Lori are cruising around Turkey just now
on a yacht. We also got to see lots of elephants at the water hole just
below the pool, along with Zebra. John & I had a quick lunch while we were there. We'd like to extend a very big
thank you to Bombay for all his effort & advice as well as Jim
& Lori for extending the use of their facilities to us. Have a
look at www.loisaba.com to see where we were. Bombay now has is own workshop in Nanyuki and is a complete expert on Landrovers.
It was 6pm before we finished all the work.
Oil changed, all filters; A fmajor service. Some remedial work
done on the front wheel bearings and the prop shaft fully lubed. We
also had to replace some rubber bushes on the shock absorbers as they
were about to disintegrate. Given that they were fitted brand new before
departure from Cape Town, on Old Man Emu shocks, designed for the
toughest conditions going, gives some idea of the journey from Cape Town
to Kenya. John
drove back to Mindy's house and we made it in 2.5 hrs. It was dark for
most of the way but with powerful spots, not a problem. Courtesy of Pauline, a lovely chicken
curry was waiting for us on arrival.
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