The road from Sesriem to Walvis Bay is long, dry and in places devoid of anything. In other places it is awe inspiring in its geological makeup, I could hardly comprehend what I was looking at. Jim (AKA the driver) was having cows. We had to stop and examine. We found river beds with showers of red garnets blanketing the basin. The folds of the earth look like laminated dough, layers and layers bunched up from the movement of the earth but old old old. Eerie.
The long straight patches (a goodly amount) was so very isolated, we started talking about Mad Max movies, and it really harkened to them, for those who have watched them. Which got Bryce to look up the movies that have been filmed in the Namib desert. Amazingly NOT Lawrence of Arabia, although I kept wondering if I would see Bedouins on camels yesterday (!!!). No, not that but guess what? The latest Mad Max movie!!!! Oh and the road was gravel. Pretty much all of it. We passed 2 teams of graders, they bring a portable hut and evidently stay in it on the way. Amazing.
We passed the Tropic of Capricorn today. There is a geocache there :) Did you know it moves about 15meters yearly. I’m having trouble wrapping my brain around that...
We are on the coast now, also completely wild: the desert comes right up to the water, so you look one way and its dunes, and the other and it’s the Atlantic. Did I mention flamingos? That’s a different post.
Karen and Birgit flipping the map
You can see for miles and miles just like in Quadrophenia
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