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FACE TO FACE WITH ANCIENT ARTISTS IN NAMIBIA
Frikkie was our guide on this journey into the distant past. aa
Namibia’s Desert Elephants
The more we moved into this land, the more my soul awoke and expanded into the openness. I love this view best of all because you can see the road disappearing into the horizon …into light We eventually came down into a wide grassy plain. In the foreground, a herd of springbok; in […]
Untamed Namibia – Crystal Matrix
These two stones I also found on the beach. Each has color and they appear “coated” with limestone. At least I think that’s what it is. These are good examples of plain stones with hidden beauty. The one on the left has an interior of pale blue-violet and the coat on […]
Silver Giants of Etosha
Humans have so much to learn from the Elephants. They are highly intelligent and have excellent memories. They are wise and gentle giants with a very strong matriarchal family structure. They have been observed visiting the remains of their ancestors, processing quietly through the old bones, touching them gently with the tips of their […]
Lunching on Leaves and Grasses
Technical Note – in the last post I used my newly installed Video Press which requires you to click on a link and then view the video. I learned that some people missed the links, so missed the videos. In this post, I returned to uploading from You Tube because the video shows […]
Etosha – the Memory of Water
What you see above is the sign welcoming visitors to Etosha National Park. Dry and desert-like now, the Etosha region flowed with water about 4,500-5,000 years ago. All that remains is a vast, white pan. Heather and i visited Etosha for the second time in Novmember, 2015. In this post I introduce the land […]
The Traces of Presence
The next adventure on Frikkie’s tour was a journey into the land of the Topnaar who are a branch of the Nama people. They live in western central Namib along the Kuiseb River in the area around Walvis Bay. They are a semi nomadic tribe, part of the Khoisan genetic group. The ‡Aonin Topnaars are […]
The Finger of God
Over our 2015 time with Frikkie, we visited various areas in the Namib Desert which runs the length of Namibia on the west coast up into Angola. Each desert area is different and Frikkie took us deep into each one, explaining and showing the geology of the land. The journey is deep into […]
The Beauty of Desolation
On Monday, October 26, Heather and I took the Town Hoppers shuttle to Swakamund where Frikkie met us and our tour with him began with a beach side stop on our way to Hientes Bay where he lives. We call it fog, Namibians call it mist. The beach was very misty and windy but not […]