Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. Lots of German influence makes this city look quite modern |
Waterburg National Park features 'Organ Pipes', just like in Tasmania |
The Hoba Meterorite is the world's largest and is over 80,000 years old. I hid a cache here. |
Off to Etosha National Park. This is one of the many watering holes that you can visit to view wildlife |
Lots of Zebras |
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More elephants! |
Our Safari truck with Karibu Safari |
At the Okaukuejo campground in Etosha there is a tower you can climb for a better view |
Springbok are very common |
A Kudu |
Adult Oryx and babies |
Etosha has both natural and artificial watering holes. This is a natural one |
A Kori Bustard |
A Flying Banana |
Lion hiding under a tree in the hot sun. Taken with a 400mm lens |
Wildebeest at rest (or is that a hartebeest?) |
Zebras at an artificial watering hole. Note the hyena on the right |
Hyenas are very strange looking predators |
Hyenas are gone and the zebras are more relaxed when they drink |
It's mid afternoon and the Elephants are coming to the watering hole to drink, cool down, and socialize |
All other animals leave the watering hole when the elephants arrive |
Hello, I think I met you at this watering hole a while back |
Lion cubs crossing the road at sunset |
Some parts of Etosha are flat pans with very little vegetation |
This is a very famous watering hole in Etosha that always has something exciting going on. I also hid a cache here. |
Night shots using ISO 800 film to capture a rhino at the same watering hole |
A giraffe waits until it is safe to drink |
And more elephants |
Off to Palmwag in north-west Namibia |
The landscape here is much different and it is quite dry |
I love this lemon-green colour of the grass in Namibia |
A bushwalk through an area with iron rocks |
Resting after a long walk |
We came across a fresh Oryx kill, but all that was left was a couple of horns plus some hair and blood |
A Welwitchia, a tree that is 1500 years old with only two leaves |
Off to Damaraland, where the landscape changes again |
Cool round rocks |
Sunset over Damaraland |
At Twyfelfontein you can visit historical rock art. I was busy hiding caches here as well. |
More rock art |
Cape Cross on the coast is a famous seal colony |
And boy does it ever smell bad! |
Swakopmund on the coast is quite a pretty town that has some German influence |
Sunset over the Atlantic Ocean. We saw a green flash here |
The Desert Moon Valley -- quite neat! |
More strange desert plants |
Remote bush camp with no facilities |
Solitaire, a remote place to stop for some of Moose's delicious apple crumble? |
Not much rain and quite high temperatures |
Most of Namibia is dry dusty roads cut into the desert |
The world's highest sand dunes are located in Namibia at Sossusvlei, we started out by climbing this baby dune which only an hour to get to the top! |
Lots of neat shapes and they are always changing. The average dune moves about 2cm a year |
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The next morning it was off to the big dunes. A two hour walk was required to reach the dunes from the car park, a mere 2km away. The morning light gave wonderful contrast to the dunes |
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Just to give an idea of scale here, there are people climbing up this dune on the sunny side. Of course in this web-reduced image they are only a couple of pixels high |
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Up to the ridge of the dune is no easy task. This makes an excellent aerobic and strength workout! |
Top of the dune ridge |
Well you have to get down off the dune, which involves running down the 45° side. Top to bottom in this picture is 90m and only took a few seconds |
Neat patterns in the sand |
After the dunes we went for a hike up a small hill and watched the sunset |
Our last night of camping included a hike to a small natural pool |
It was very hot, so had to go for a swim with the giant tadpoles in the water |
Yeeahh, last night in a tent! 4.5 weeks is too long to go camping |
The group from the second tour back in Windhoek |
The final sunset |
