Straight after breakfast I took off on a quad bike tour of the white sand dunes of Swakopmund in search of any wildlife the guide could find. Georgie decided to stay in comfort and relish the more than adequate bathroom facilities for hair washing and general girly stuff.
I was fortunate to be the only tourist on the tour, so as soon as the young fella guide found out I was a bit of a hoon he took the initiative and did some hooning of his own. Tearing up enormous steep dunes, motor roaring and sand spraying, then sweeping down into deep valleys to swoop up the other side. Adrenaline junkie stuff, heh heh! The sharp eyed guide managed to spot a few spider burrows and traces of a couple of different geckoes, he managed to unearth the geckoes but the spiders eluded him. We saw sidewinder snake tracks but were unable to locate that particular beastie, most unfortunately.
But it was a couple of hours of fun in a stunningly beautiful setting. Namibia is fabulous.
Later we went into town and had wonderful massages for less than a third of what we’d pay in Australia. Cool.
We visited a crystal gallery that had a wonderful collection of all sorts of fabulous and colourful rocks, minerals and crystals. The quartz crystals were second to none, including enormous clusters of giant crystals that were almost unbelievable. The pietersite (only found in Namibia) was very impressive.
Web footed gecko
Shovel headed gecko
Big quartz crystals
Pietersite
I love geckoes. Hard to imagine such delicate little creatures living in such a bleak landscape. The cute little web-footed (to make walking on sand easier?) one is amazing. Its legs so high and stilted perhaps to keep the body away from the hot sand.
I notice you’re linking the images to the full-sized images now. Excellent. I’d been going through linking them myself, but have been a bit slack about it lately.
At first glance, I thought the web footed gecko was a dog, with it’s long legged upright stance!
With all those unique to Namibia crystals there, can imagine Georgie will be traveling with some beautiful memories necklace style ?