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Day 3: Kilaguni to Amboseli Ol Tukai, 18 February 2020
Gerardus Mercator, Dispatch reporter
Photos: gerardbrown.co.uk
guidance and bolster the morale of anyone who needed it.
Meanwhile, John Cotton had set up himself up at the end
of the section with his tow rope already attached... just in
case.
It’s fair to say that most cars managed to get through
one way or another, but it’s also worth noting that the
lower slung cars, such as the Porsche’s, were at times only
visible from the window sill upwards. Edmund Peel and
Sara MacDonald for example looked, for a brief moment at
least, that they’d need a periscope rather than a windscreen.
Iris and Jean-Philippe Tripet’s Lancia was one of several
cars getting bogged down midway through this swamp,
having to be pulled to the finish. Keith Graham and
Susan Hoffmann’s Mercedes lost its exhaust - which was
eventually fished out of the mire by one of the organisers.
After such a tough day, the arrival at the lodge was a
welcome one. Following a quick wash and brush up the
crews headed out into the bush once again on a fleet of
safari vehicles for the first game drive of the rally.
Dinner around the BBQ was the centrepiece of another
very convivial evening.
Edmund Peel and Sara MacDonald, 1973 Porsche 911
Keith Graham and Susan Hoffmann, 1969 Mercedes-Benz 280SL
Jean-Philippe and Iris Tripet, 1973 Lancia Fulvia Monte Carlo
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