Namibia Adventure- Days 3 and 4 in Swakop

An important fact about our house in Port Nolloth-it had ghosts. WE’RE SURE. After seeing several baboon, horses, falling rock warning signs, we made our own for the next occupants.

This is on the long, long drive up to Swakopmund- the city in Namibia other than Windhoek. The town was great, and the couple whose guest house we stayed in was so sweet. The fellow had worked for a US company in Saudi Arabia, and then retired to run a guest house in a costal Namibian town. Not a bad situation! We explored and shopped through the town the next day, finding great coffee shops and jewelry stores. Then we drove out to the dunes...

Here’s a picture of (or around) Dune 7, one of Africa’s two largest sand dunes. Things aren’t very clear because we got caught in a MASSIVE sandstorm that wrecked havoc on us...

(if only the sand in the air showed up on film). Sand was in our hair, clothes, teeth, eyelids, and Michael and Brigid’s cameras.

Here we are in silhouette on the (sand!) road. At first we thought that it was a typical result in a windy Namibian town, but on the way home we saw a TRAIN derailed by the sandstorm, with support rushing out to help it get back on the tracks. Looks like we were there at an awesome/wrong time! It prevented us from being able to paraglide, but I think we decided it was worth the experience.