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Hi, it's all about the adventure... ((*_*)) 
Sep 17, 2006 02:00 PM Wade in the water...
Day 10 and the moment we entered the park we started seeing animals. We passed zebra crossings and lions – I couldn’t even make out what I was seeing, but hey I was happy.
The best part was late evening going down to the watering hole and just watch the animals drink. I must have seen twenty giraffe drinking, five rhinos, and more elephants than I could keep track of. We stayed up until 2am watching them coming and going; it was the first time since leaving London that we’d stayed up so late – way cool.
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Sep 16, 2006 02:00 PM Bring on the wild animals...
Luckily today we only had a 150km drive to get to Etosha and have a warm shower before our game drive. We stopped in Usakos along the way and I saw my first herero woman waiting for a taxi to go back to Swakopmund. It was a treat to see her, I asked her if I could take her picture and at first she demanded money. Then she said I could take the picture; I contributed to her taxi fare.
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Sep 15, 2006 02:00 PM Cheetah a cat or dog?
Day 8 we stopped at Cape Cross to see the seal colony and boy what a smell. It was awful – yet interesting to understand their existence. We saw a lot of mangy jackals around scouring for food; I swear the circle of life is hard to take some times.
Unfortunately we were unable to stop at the cheetah park as someone in the owner’s family had died and he had closed up shop to attend the funeral. We ended up in the middle of nowhere beneath the Matterhorn of Namibia – Spitzkoppe. Sean, the Scottish Indian guy cooked dinner - curry chicken with very limited water, we didn;t even wash up the wears properly. This was the first time we had no facilities at all. Paul dug a toilet and that was it, tomorrow Etosha and wildlife.
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Sep 14, 2006 02:00 PM I hate Swakopmund...
Final day in Swakopmund – woo hoo!!!! The weather has been a bit miserable and really cold. They promised that coastal fog would burn off and the day would be lovely, well that didn’t happened.
It’s time to do some quad-biking. It was brilliant; as the sun was setting we had some wonderful views over the Skeleton Coast – pure magic.
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Sep 13, 2006 02:00 PM Blade IV vampires in the desert...
Spent the day walking around Swakopmund, it’s a really strange feeling, but I just want to be on the road again.
We went out for dinner at the Lodge and had a fish barbeque. The food was good but the surroundings were a little unusual. We were in the bar area, which had a pool smack in the middle. The evening started of tame enough until some other people came in and jumped in the pool fully clothed, we were told that they had been filming in the desert and was just letting of some steam. Then they proceeded to swim in the nude - that was my cue to leave.
Yvonne (the American) was well pleased, as the following morning we were told that Wesley Snipes (star of Blade) had turned up at our hotel and they were all chatting in the bar. So much for all the press reports of no one knows where Wesley is, and he is hiding from the US tax collectors; I could tell them he’s on location in Namibia filming his latest movie.
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Sep 12, 2006 02:00 PM The hare and the tortoise...
Another early start, this time to see the sunrise over the dunes, Paul our driver was good he got us to the gates before they were even open, but it did mean we were at the head of the queue and had a 15 minute head start to climb up to them over the there (what seemed like) twenty vehicles. At the bottom of Dune 45 (which is coincidentally 45 km from the camp) all the boys when running up, but soon had to slow down as it was really a hard to climb and you couldn’t get your footing. We were told to walk in the person in front’s footprints, it did make it easier but it was still hard, and I had sand everywhere. It was beautiful up there, not a stunning sunrise but beautiful nonetheless.
Krister asked Lucy to marry him up there, it was so romantic; but he being the die hard comedian, said he was trying to catch up with her as she went running of with the boys, and he being less fit was left in her shadow, coughing and splattering ‘Llllucy, wwwait, I want to ask you a question… It was just as well she said yes as we still had 15 days to go, and the bus ride would have been a little unbearable.
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Sep 12, 2006 02:00 PM Taste the apple pie in Solitaire
I’m losing track of the days now, I can’t tell if today is Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, now that’s what I call relaxed.
I woke up a 3.45, I think the temperature dropped and couldn’t get back to sleep, so I decided to put my tent down.
We headed off to walk through the Sesriem Canyon – sesriem means six thongs as it used to be a place where travellers would lower their buckets into the river to get water.
Then it was onwards to Solitaire, Walvis Bay and Swakopmund.
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Sep 11, 2006 02:00 PM The changing colours of the desert
Day 4 and I am really starting to enjoy myself. The groups quite nice and we’re starting to gel well and I getting to know everyone’s name.
The landscape is now starting to change, and the red sand is now starting to appear at the tops of the hills. The sky is so rich; I couldn’t stop trying to capture it.
The day started early but we were at our camp by 12.30; along the way we passed ostriches, springbok and kudos; but seeing the sand dunes really made me smile. So of the group decided not to join us on the Desert Walk; but it was excellent. Our guide Francis was so funny; he explained how the area got its name, and how he thought global warming was having a negative effect on the desert. We also found out that that black hue that we were seeing in the sand was actually iron; he took a magnet and ran it across the sand and low and behold all the irons was stuck to the magnet, it was very astonishing. Namibia is such a mineral rich country.
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Sep 10, 2006 02:00 PM Shadows verses bleaching
Day 3
Orange or Gariep River is a beautiful place, the guys started playing rugby and we went for a walk. It was quite quiet, with not many people around, however by late evening the camp site got a little busier, but it turned out to be a nice evening with us talking and playing cards around the picnic table. I went to sleep under the stars last night and the moon woke me up this morning. Now this is camping!
Only 250 km to get to Fish River Canyon; we were a little disappointed, our guide said that ‘you didn’t want to get to the canyon late evening as all you can see is shadows’. Doesn’t he realise that was the aim. Seeing the canyon early morning or lat evening would have been brilliant, but as it happened it was just alright. We did however enjoy the canyon rim walk and lunch at the rest camp was cool as a squirrel and birds came and begged for food.
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Sep 09, 2006 02:00 PM Run for the border
Day 2
Well after that night, I really don’t know what to expect. I’m not sure I’m cut out to be a camper.
Today we completed a 500km drive, through the northern region of South Africa, passing Clanwilliams, Cedarberg, Vanrhynsdorp, Namaqualand (where we stopped for lunch amongst the wild flowers) and Springbok across the border into Namibia and our camp for the night was on the bank of the Orange River.
I was trying to be clever and too a picture while driving along and my filter blow off – bummer, now I’ll never get any decent photos.
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