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Kayaking & dunes 4x4 rollercoaster
Set off early to get to Walvis Bay 30 km S. The sea fog was very thick and reminded us of home in the winter. We joined a group for a morning's kayaking off Pelican Point and set off in a Jeep. We passed the salt works, which is an incredible operation and beyond this skirted a lagoon with thousands of greater and lesser flamingos, the latter being the pinker variety. This area is a renowned birding spot and is also popular with cape fur seals, which also attracts ...
Skeleton Coast & Walvis Bay.
... continued... Each agent we spoke to we had to re-explain our problem and all of them would pass on the message to the manager...right they didn’t!! Finally I managedto speak with Johnny, one of the guys in Windhoek...a lot of promises he made, but at the end he never called back... Again we lost hours and hours, just sitting, waiting, getting frustrated by the African way of dealing with things. We got really ******. Suddenly we received a ...
Half a continent later...
... a dog on the head and it had yelped and backed away like it was used to being hit...and this reminded me of that. We were in a gun-running corridor in a country only recently released from guerilla warfare, so I guess that's what you get. It's interesting how well peoples' behaviour, even at a superficial level, can betray the recent history of a country.
Yet again, I'm running out of time, but I want to do Zim some ...
ON THE COAST
... shoveling drifts of sand off the road just outside of town. The drifts become so big that they are impossible to drive through. Exactly like snowdrifts can build up on the roads in Canada.
Still having problems with Harley stalling when traveling across ripples on the road. But now I think I have found the problem. I do not want to share this solution with you just yet, because ...
Walvis Bay
... bus. We felt safe in an unfamiliar place with this driver. We listened to music on my iPhone during the drive. We each climbed up the huge sand dune in our bare feet. The sand is as fine as cake flour and invitingly warm. Our feet sink in the sand like they would in powder snow. Very exciting.
Our driver took us back to the center of town where the shuttle bus was ...
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