Skeleton Coast Park

Fueling

Hand pumping fuel to the plane.

Damaraland Airstrip, Namibia, May 29, 2009

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Airplane Photo

Damaraland to Skeleton Coast, Namibia, May 29, 2009

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Airplane Photo

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Airplane Photo

Huarusib River, Skeleton Coast, Namibia, May 29, 2009

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Airplane Photo

Huarusib River, Skeleton Coast, Namibia, May 29, 2009

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Skeleton Coast Dry Camp

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Tent #1

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Landscape

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Sand

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Sand

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Wasp

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Common Blue

Polyommatus icarus

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Wild Sesame

Sesamum capense

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Unknown Flowers

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Barnard's Namib Day Gecko

Rhoptropus barnardi

Skeleton Coast Park, Namibia, May 29, 2009

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Dollar Plant

Zygophyllum stapffii

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Camel Thorn

Acacia erioloba

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Ostrich Salad

Zygophyllum simplex

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Darkling Beetle

Stenocara eburnea

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Tok-Tokkie Beetle

Tenebrionid

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Spiny Spiderflower

Cleome foliosa

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Unknown

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Ostrich Salad

Zygophyllum simplex

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Nara

Acanthosicyos horridus

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Lichens

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Lichens

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Darkling Beetle

Stenocara eburnea

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Lichen Field

The entire plain is covered with small lichens.

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Gemsbok

Oryx gazella gazella

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Landscape

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Park Road

Vehicles are strictly required to stay on the road since tracks last decades if not centuries in this arid landscape.

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Lichens

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Sunset

This ridge was our sundowner location.

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Brown Hyena

Hyaena brunnea - a wonderful surprise while we were having sundowners.

Dusk, Skeleton Coast Park, Namibia, May 29, 2009

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Brown Hyena

Hyaena brunnea - very low light photo.

Dusk, Skeleton Coast Park, Namibia, May 29, 2009

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Pencil Bush

Arthraerua leubnitziae

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Spiny Spiderflower

Cleome foliosa

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Skeleton Coast Dry Camp

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Lichens

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Rock

Interesting layering.

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Pig's Ears

Cotyledon orbicularis

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Damara Milk-bush

Euphorbia damarana

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South African Giraffes

Giraffa camelopardalis giraffa

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Red-billed Francolin

Pternistes adsperus

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Red-billed Francolins

Pternistes adsperus

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Euphorbia phylloclada Boiss

Best guess id.

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Unknown

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Unknown

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Euphorbia phylloclada Boiss

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Landscape

Wind shapes this environment.

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Gemsbok

Oryx gazella gazella

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Huarusib River

Water is often below the sand bed of the river.

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Himba Village

The circular wooden corral is in the center of the photo.

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Unknown Lizard

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Huarusib River

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Namib Neat's Foot

Adenolobus pechuelii

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Unknown Plant

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Himba Hut

Cow dung will continue being added to complete this hut.

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Himba Hut & People

Mother & children.

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Himba Mother & Child

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Himba Mother & Child

Ground Ochre & Milk fat are used on the skin and hair.

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Himba Mother & Child

skele

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Himba Children

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Ochre Grinding

Everything has the ochre & fat stains on it.

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Himba Children

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Himba Woman

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Himba Woman & Hut

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Himba Children

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Himba Hut

The basic hut structure.

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Himba Village

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Himba Women & Children

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Himba Village

Notice that the Himba man isn't wearing traditional clothing.

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Himba Woman Smoking

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Himba Woman

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Himba Woman

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Himba and Hut

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Himba Woman and Child

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Himba Children

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Himba Crafts

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Himba Crafts

Women are hoping we purchase a lot of the crafts.

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Huarusib River

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Lunch

Our Botswana guide & driver took good care of us.

Huarusib River, Skeleton Coast, Namibia, May 30, 2009

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Donkeys @ Waterhole

Waterhole might have been excavated by Elephants.

Huarusib River, Skeleton Coast, Namibia, May 30, 2009

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Cape Wagtail

Motacilla capensis

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Huarusib River

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Makalani Palm

Hypaene petersiana - also called Real Fan Palms.

Huarusib River, Skeleton Coast, Namibia, May 30, 2009

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Three-banded Plover

Charadrius tricollaris

Huarusib River, Skeleton Coast, Namibia, May 30, 2009

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Blacksmith Lapwing

Vanellus armatus

Huarusib River, Skeleton Coast, Namibia, May 30, 2009

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Yellow-billed Egret

Egretta intermedia

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Egyptian Geese

Alopochen aegyptiaca

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Mountain Wheatear

Oenanthe monticola - female.

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Tree

What a tough place to live.

Huarusib River, Skeleton Coast, Namibia, May 30, 2009

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Chacma Baboons

Papio cyanocephalus ursinus

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Chacma Baboons

Papio cyanocephalus ursinus

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Chacma Baboons

Papio cyanocephalus ursinus

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Chacma Baboons

Papio cyanocephalus ursinus

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Chacma Baboons

Papio cyanocephalus ursinus

Huarusib River, Skeleton Coast, Namibia, May 30, 2009

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Tree

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Makalani Palms

Hypaene petersiana

Huarusib River, Skeleton Coast, Namibia, May 30, 2009

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Springboks

Antidorcas marsupialis

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