blog gallery guestbook travel links about time viewing: most recent [archive] « » spitzkoppe to swakopmund 2007-09-02 [related blog entry]  [en] [de]  spitzkoppe worms - barbara, christian, miriam & markus breakfast "monkey orange" (strychnos spinosa) for breakfast an extremely well camouflaged chafer spitzkoppe, just after sunrise driving westward - the landscape seemed totally devoid of life. miriam and johanna preferred the hard way ;-) botanical stop, a bit further down the road noah, miriam, barbara, johanna, christian parched daniela anchieta's dune lizard (aporosaurus anchieta) caterpillar, on a blooming acacia a vw beetle, driving through the desert johanna, miriam & barbara - what are they doing with their legs?? entering hentiesbaai (hentie's bay) kind-of a small office getting close to the coast, there were lots of these little hills where plants stopped the erosion a bad photo showing that there are actually signs that point out turns christian holds the world steady, so my picture doesn't turn out shaky. getting close to cape cross the cape fur seal (arctocephalus pusillus ssp. pusillus) colony at cape cross cape fur seals (arctocephalus pusillus ssp. pusillus) very clever: a tourist leaves the platform and walks toward the seals with his two young kids. cape cross - two copies of the original cross, which was brought to germany in 1893 english inscription: "in the year 6685 after the creation of the world and 1485 after the birth of christ, ..." the german inscription: "in the year 6685 after the creation of the world and 1485 after the birth of christ, ..." black-and-white mussles entering swakopmund a cell phone tower camouflaged as a palm tree swakopmund beach catwalk christian, barbara and miriam he asked us to take a picture, asked me to send him the photo, ... ...and wrote this down as "his address". swakopmund restcamp bungalow swakopmund restcamp bungalow swakopmund restcamp bungalow it was a little disappointing to travel more than 7.500 km and find german words everywhere... we sort-of got lost at one point, but a security guard of scottish descent gave us the right directions soon afterwards... [go back]