Khutse GR - Thunderstorms in the desert Day 3

Rare sighting, flooded roads in the Kalahari sands. 

It was drizzling when we woke up but not nearly as hard as overnight. It started raining just as we got to bed and rained steadily the whole night. By 3am, it was bucketing down so hard that we thought that we'd be swimming around the campsite the next morning. 

Khutse GR - Thunderstorms in the desert Day 2

Just enough of a break to get packed, it was a wet and grey morning. 

It was drizzling when the alarm went off at 5am but we had planned for rain by putting our rain jackets in the tent. And shortly after we got out, the rain stopped for a brief period allowing us to get the tent packed away in the dry. 

Khutse GR - Thunderstorms in the desert Day 1

Ominous signs with rain on the cards as we left. 

We'd planned to go the previous weekend but the rain forecast had us postponing the trip. In the end it didn't rain much and with more rain forecast for this weekend and the next we decided it was now or never. So with thunderstorms predicted on both Saturday and Sunday we packed the car on Thursday, took the Friday off and headed to Khutse, hoping we wouldn't get too wet on our long weekend.