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| Getting enough Fire wood. |
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| (Joep's photo) |
One of our favourite campsites is at Mirabib in the Namib
Naukluft Park
.The Namib-Naukluft is the largest game park in Africa
and the fourth largest in the world. ‘Namib’ means open space and the Namib
Desert gave its name to form Namibia
– “land of open spaces”.
We had an amazing weekend, including a very interesting visit to Gobabeb research station with the best of guides, Polla.
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| (Joep's photo) |
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| The Open day at Gobabeb. |
Gobabeb
conducts research in the fields of ecology, climate and geomorphology. By conducting training courses Gobabeb aims to improve the public awareness and
knowledge of dry land ecology and environmental issues.
The Palmato “web-footed” gecko. This charismatic species is
found in the dune sea and has webbed feet, a unique trait that allows it to
burrow into compacted sand. A nocturnal creature, it comes out to feed on dune
ants and termites after dark. By licking its eyes, it collects dew drops that roll in on the fog that basks the desert each
morning.
Like all other golden moles the build of these animals is
similar to the moles, though they are not related, and is adapted to
a life of digging. The front extremities are remodeled to digging claws; in
contrast to most other species of its family they have three claws each. The
tail is physically not visible, there are no auricles, the eyes are covered
with fur, and the mouth is bearing a leather-like pad, which also serves for
digging. It "swims" through the sand just under or on the
surface while searching for food. It is mainly a nocturnal
animal,
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| The landscape at the research center. |
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| Temptations! (Joep's photo) |
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| Photo taken by Joep |
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| Photo taken by Joep |
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| Joep and Anita's campsite. (Joep's photo) |
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| our campsite under starry skies. (Joep's photo) |
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| Schalk & jaco making Caipirinha |
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| Mom and Anita cooking breakfast. |
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| Camp fire |
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| baking "potbrood" / pot bread |
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| prawn flambe in Cuban rum |
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| Starters |
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| Mom's west coast snoek pate with Cuban prawns & sweet chillies. |
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| on our way home |
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| Thanks Anita , Joep, Martin, Polla, Chrija, Schalk and Nardia for a memorable weekend |
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| rocks in the Kuiseb river. |
