Electrical's
JVC Laptop powered by 12v converter for updating website, watching films and connecting to GPS.
Garmin Vista handheld GPS linked to laptop using and South African road atlas, this will be backed up with a Bluetooth GPS.
Canon EOS350 camera with different lenses for wildlife and scenery, with a 1G storage card.
Panasonic DVD camcorder, we chose this for ease of transfer and editing film. We can also use this as a mini DVD writer as our laptop is only a CD writer.
A 20G MP3 player for playing our music through the car radio via a mini transmitter (which is excellent).
Various types of battery chargers and lots of rechargeable batteries.
Solar powered/wind up world band radio for when we are stopped.
Walkie Talkies for when we are apart.
Mobile phone/PDA for general use and can be used with Bluetooth GPS.
We have bought an Iridium 9505A Satellite Phone with a prepay Africa only sim card.
All powered by a split charge system with twin batteries using a marine voltage sensing relay.
All electrical items will be stored in airtight plastic containers and locked away when not being used.