Archive for September 2008

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Dust, dunes and fish

Dust, sand, wind, mist and sun all part of a single days experience along Namibia’s coastline. Linda and I got excited as we thought we saw our first tumbleweed do a live road crossing, but on closer inspection it was one of South Africa’s national flowers, the plastic bag.  The C14 back road from Keetmanshoop to [...]

A busy week in Swakopmund

Namibia is a great place with fantastic people and beautiful natural surroundings. Linda and I are grateful to Heidi Curry for allowing us to camp in her moms house. This has being great and saving us some valuable fuel money. We have been in the thick of things trying to understand the positive initiatives of [...]

We are now officially in Namibia!

We headed for the Namibian border, a well-traveled route, and as expected going through customs took only 20 minutes and cost R160.What a breeze! We doubt all such crossings will be the same.  Soon enough it was off on the long hot, straight, dusty roads towards our first fisheries filming hotspot, Walvis Bay. We traveled [...]