Below are the YouTube links to our videos and slide-shows. We enjoy making these as we go along, but as you will see, our multi-media skills are still very much ‘a work in progress’ 🙂 .
23. Cuthbert in Lesotho – Up the Sani Pass and through Lesotho
22. Drakensberg Zip-wire – dare-devils! Zip-wire tour of the tree-top canopy in the Drakensberg Mountains
21. Cuthbert’s First Blow-out – below is a short video cobbled together from the dash-cam as Cuthbert suffered his first tyre blow-out on an (allegedly!) ‘indestructible’ Michelin XZL tyre. See the Africa Blog story at ‘Blow-out‘
Update 27 Jan 2019
We have quite a lot more experience with these tyres now. I think that the blow-out described in the video could have been caused by not installing the tyre plug correctly. I think that when I installed the tyre plug to stop the puncture, the plug may not have gone through the whole tyre thickness. I think that possibly the plug tool hit the steel mat under the tread and moved sideways. This would have sealed the hole in the outer tyre, but not the hole in the inner section of the tyre. As a result, the air escaped from the inside of the tyre and ‘inflated’, thereby delaminating the tyre between the steel mat and the tread. This probably led to the catastrophic failure. I no longer use tyre plugs on these tyres, instead I remove the tyre and fit a patch or mushroom plug from the inside.
20. Cuthbert in Africa – a short compilation video of some of Cuthbert’s ‘off-road’ highlights around Africa.
19. Gorilla Trekking in Rwanda – video of our time with the Mountain Gorillas in the Volcanoes National Park.
18. Cuthbert’s first jungle adventure – video of the drive through the jungle to Ngosi Crater, southern highlands of Tanzania. Click here to see the story in our Tanzania Blog.
17. Cuthbert on the Livingstonia Escarpment – video of the drive up and down the Livingstonia Escarpment (northern Malawi) to the Mushroom Farm Campsite. Click here to see the Livingstonia story in our Malawi Blog.
16. Coastal Track to Agate Beach North of Luderitz– video of one section of the costal track from Luderitz to the Agate Beach (southern Namibia). Click here to see our Namibia Blog.
15. Cuthbert Touring Nyika Plateau – video of our drive around the Nyika Plateau, northern Malawi. Click here to see the Nyika story in our Malawi Travel Blog.
14. Diving Lake Malawi – video of Marcus’ SCUBA dive in the lake near Cape Maclear. Click here to see our Malawi Travel Blog
13. Dry River Crossing En-Route to Kariba – video footage of Cuthbert negotiating the steep banks either side of a dry riverbed at the eastern end of Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe. Click here to see our Zimbabwe Travel Blog
12. Cuthbert’s First Winch Recovery – a short video of Cuthbert winching a ‘damsel in distress’ out of the sand in the Zambezi National Park, Zimbabwe. Click here to see the story in our Zimbabwe Travel Blog
11. Henties Bay and North – video of the 4×4 driving and the beautiful scenery north from Henties Bay/Cape Cross and around Damaraland, Namibia (watch the video below or click here to see the story of Cuthbert in Damaraland).
10. Kaokoland Slideshow – stills from our trip to Epupa Falls and visit to a Himba village in Kaokoland, Namibia (watch the video below or click here to see the story of our visit to the Himbas)
9. Walvis Bay Seals – great footage of our trip kayaking with the seals at Pelican Point near Walvis Bay, Namibia (watch the video below or click here to see the story).
8. Cuthbert’s First Play in the Sand – Cuthbert getting stuck in the dunes, on the way to Sandwich Harbour, south from Walvis Bay, Namibia (watch the video below or click here to see the story of Cuthbert and his recovery with 4 sand-ladders).
7. Cuthbert in the Kalahari – some stills of the animals and scenery in the Kgalagadi Trans-frontier Park between South African and Namibia (watch the video below or click here to see the story of Cuthbert and our ‘multi-tasking’ in the Kalahari).
6. Richtersfeld slideshow – some stills of the spectacular Richtersfeld scenery, Northern Cape, South Africa (watch the video below or click here to see the story of Cuthbert in The Awesome Richtersfeld)
5. Cuthbert in Richtersfeld – video of 4×4 driving in The Richtersfeld, Northern Cape, South Africa (watch the video below or click here to see the story of Cuthbert in The Awesome Richtersfeld).
4. Penguin
– at Betty’s Bay, Western Cape, South Africa (watch the video below or click here and scroll down to see the story)
3. Cuthbert by the Seaside Tsitsikama– video taken at Storms River Camp, Tsitsikama, Eastern Cape, South Africa (watch the video below or click here and scroll down to see the story).
2. Cuthbert in Addo
– taken on Cuthbert’s first 4×4 Trail in Africa at Addo Reserve, Eastern Cape, South Africa (watch the video below or click here to see the story of Cuthbert in Addo).
1. Learning to fly the Phantom
– from Cuthbert’s European Tester Trip before shipping to Africa. Video taken of Cuthbert from the Go-Pro airborne in a Phantom UAV in Bavaria, Germany (watch the video below or click here and scroll down to see the story).