The last two days before arriving here in Swakopmund were spent hiking in Spitzkoppe and camping on the beach at km 108 on the skeleton coast. Landscape here in Namibia on the coast is absolutely desolate. There is nothing out there and you can, even today, understand why it was such a terrible place for a ship to wreck. There is absolutely no drinkable water around and you are miles and miles and miles from any sort of civilization.
Spitzkoppe is an amazing rock cluster shooting out of the flat lands with some great rock climbing and hiking. Jules and I went on quite the venture and climbed up to a pace called Bushman’s Paradise at the top of the rocks. Not sure how much of a paradise I would have called it but I guess in the rainy season it could be quite lush and green in the little valley at the top of the hill. Here are a couple pixs of the rock and jules and I hanging out. Note the truck in the bottom right corner of the rock picture for a sense of scale.
Oh, also, you will have to drop down to the Mighty Zambezi section to read in order as I have posted this all in one go!
PS - that is jules in the photo w/me
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