Namibia 2015
Formerly German South West Africa; became Namibia in 1990.
Early morning mist along the Chobe River
Painting themselves white with clay to protect from the brutal sun
Finding water to drink is a challenge
Here's mud in your eye!
Male ostrich displaying his plumage
Mating dance
Straining to see
Two-week old ostrich
Lilac-breasted roller
Hoopoe bird
Swallow-tail bee-eater
African red-eyed bulbul
Giraffes whipping necks
Giraffes eat continuously preferring the leaves of acacia trees
Leopard at the waterhole
How to scratch your tummy when you are a rhino.
Rhino cow and calf
Quiver Tree forest
Called Quiver Trees because Bushmen use the bark to make quivers
Sunrise in the Quiver Tree forest
Sunset in the Quiver Tree forest
These trees are rare and now are a national monument
Milky Way shining down on the Quiver Trees
Hyena at the waterhole
Scrawny jackal in search of water
Wild horses in the desert
Abandoned homestead serves as a rest stop for the horses
The horses are speculated to have been part of the German calvary when Namibia was South West Africa.
Playful fighting
Playing, but a little more seriously
A dip in the waterhole
Peeking between momma's legs
The sea at Luderitz
Water cascading over the rocks
Sociable weaver nest housing up to 100 pairs of birds
Called "dead vlei" this is a clay pan surrounded by great sand dunes
The surface of the pan is a hard white clay
Vlei is an Afrikaan word for shallow depression filled with water
After a cloudy morning we were happy to see the sun casting shadows
An other-worldly landscape
It is so dry here that the trees do not decompose
Once fed by a nearby stream, the sand dunes now prevent the dead vlei from receiving water
