Ah, bless the UN presence in Laayoune. Alcohol! Once we'd found their hotel we tasted the best gin and tonics for a week. Ten teams in the bar. Very happy. Jeep Thrills decided to continue the 'Boys Own' theme and camp. But only site was 30km away down an unmarked track. Ah that gin was good, possibly the last for quite a while.

So the Paris Dakar situation has caused a ripple but we're all across the situation continually and there is no real threat to us, but we are all staying together more and speaking our best queen's english! Now heading for Dakhla where we will be able to get more information from the local guides there. Driving through amazing desert landscape looking at the back of a honey badger!

So, honey badger is on one of the teams, not an unexpected African creature. Yesterday saw our first goats in trees. Do they bounce to get there? Or do shepherds put them there for tourists far side style? Baby camels drinking at a roadside pond now makes a great start to the day. Axle oil leaking like a leaking thing!