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CARRY ON CAMPING

It's mid-afternoon and the campsite at Addo Elephant National Park is filling up fast. Two vehicles pull in almost simultaneously.

One of the drivers (a Brit, coincidentally) has a somewhat unorthodox outlook on camping, honed through years of dealing with inclement weather. His dome tent is rapidly pitched against the possibility of a squall developing out of the cloudless African sky. One glance at the rocky

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