• Bron PlaskowskiIt Started As A 2 Week CruiseTraveler
    The impressive bit is they manage to keep the tyres inflated.
    1The sign says it all.This particular Welwitschia is only a youngster, estimated at 600-700 years old.The moon like terrain.Quite an unusual restaurant set up.A once mobile dining table.What every outdoor toilet needs, a couple of old car doors.Obviously half a scarecrow is enough to do the job here.Half a bath tub actually looks reasonably comfortable as a settee.A formula one kiddies car.An outdoor workshop, not a problem when the desert only gets 5-10mm of rain per year.I think this petrol station ran dry some time ago.This fella was lucky to dodge Xmas.No sure what purpose the dangly bits serve.I'm fairly sure this is an emu, I thought they were Australian.

    Last Day In Namibia

    January 9, 2025, South Atlantic Ocean ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

    We had stayed overnight in Walvis Bay. The cruise company had laid on a shuttle bus but there wasn't really a town centre as such to visit, so the bus went to a shopping mall instead.

    Today's excursion took us into the Namib desert. We passed some huge dunes, over a 100m high, and also other areas of vast flat expanse. We stopped to have a look at a plant called Welwitschia. Some examples of which are thought to be between 1,000 and 1,500 years old. The seeds apparently take about 50 years to germinate and about another 50 years to penetrate the surface of the desert.

    We then went on to view an area described as a moon land escape and from there onto the Goanikontes Oasis. At which an elaborate campsite had been built along with a farmyard zoo. Someone with a passion for old vehicles or perhaps someone who owned a scrapyard had made great use of the old vehicles in and around the outdoor restaurant/bar area.

    Then it was back to the boat and our time in Namibia was over, as by 2pm we had set sail for St Helena.    Read more