Burning Shore Swakopmund

... that you would hit and you just layed off the gas. The dunes were friggin monstrous and our guide brought us to these kinda bowls where we would go around in a circle and ride along the dune face perpendicular to the ground. Got some good video and I have to say I was a little scared but loved the adrenaline. It was funny how Jamie and I differed in what we enjoyed. Jamie would like to do doughnuts and make the bike skid which was fun for a bit but I prefered letting ...

... as this is also the adventure capital of Namibia where people come to sandboard, quad bike, skydive, fish, parasail and so on. We arrived at the Swakop Lodge hostel and were happy that Wayne and I did an upgrade to a double room with bathroom rather than share a dorm. Into the shower we went to wash the accumulated bush grime off and we put all our clothes into to be washed by the lodge ( nowhere in Africa have we found laundries where we can get our clothes machine washed ...

... hill breathing hard as I lugged up two boards. Most people by this time had had enough and were enjoying being spectators in mine and Gabe&#8217;s competition, cheering and egging us on. <br><br>When I got to the top I therefore requested three boards, which he said no to, and then that he wax the board to make it faster. Which he did, after double and triple checking with me that I really wanted him to. This time I got 76 as well and did a fist pump of ...

... d learned. Then we piled back up in the truck and bounced our way back to Shangani.<br><br> <br><br>Our campsite that night was a bushcamp, fitting, and after we set up our tents we climbed up the gorgeous rocks to watch the sunset and take pictures of the weird shapes formed by the rocks, launching off one to the other and jumping off high places into the soft sand below. It had been a good day and for many their favorite. <br>

... but if you scratched they would welt up. I got bitten on my face, neck and hands- the only part of me that stayed uncovered after dusk in mozzie area's. Most people on the truck got bitten quite badly - scorpo got about 100 on each leg !! <br><br> Congo was interesting as we were in Brazzaville during the presidential election. It was amazing how much money Denis (the past and now current president) spend on advertising. Imagine two out of every three ad's you see in the city ...

... did they know it would be their last contact with the outside world for ten days. dinner was at a brau house with plenty of local color... and when we returned, our luggage arrived! <br><br>Patty:<br><br>Many thanks to our dear friends the Greens for caring for our baby, Jazz. You guys are the BEST!<br>______________________________ ______________________________________< br>Itinerary: After an early ...

... picnic benches but the food wasn't as good as last night. As we're all still knackered from last night, we decide to avoid the local bars and head straight home. I seem to have developed a massive bruise on my back from sitting on the guide's bike (yay, first trip injury!) and it's a litle uncomfortable :( <br><br>We also learned tonight that Julie snores like a jet plane. Last night we must have been so tired we slept through it, but tonight it was truly unbelievable.

... Will, and our British guide Alex, as well as the whole group. It's 13 of us, so there's a bit of extra space on the truck which holds 16. Pretty interesting group of people - a Kiwi couple, Welsh couple, American mother/daughter, and a few solos from Switzerland, Florida, and Britain. Anyway, we set out pretty early the next morning up the west side of South Africa, and made it out of Cape Town's ****** weather pretty quickly. Set up camp at a really nice campground ...

Cape Cross Seal Colony First stop on way to Swakopmund was the seal colony and it was as smelly as i thought it would be, just kind of like a few wet dogs. Thousands and thousands of seals everywhere, most of them were asleep on rocks and totally out for the count. Stopped off at a ship that had run aground, was told that there was ...

... lovely walking there. There was total silence other than the sound of the wind blowing and her saying "imagine if we got stuck out here," repeatedly. No, I don't want to imagine it, thank you! But it was so absolutley beautiful and since it was just her and I, it made it very special. <br><br>When the group came back we headed out to Sand Dune 45 which, at more than 350 meters high, is highest sand dune in the world....and I climbed it! It was a bit tough but not too bad actually ...