The only reason we came here was to do some birding at Walvis Bay. The birding along the salt pans is one of the best places to see waders in the world. We visited here when we just started birding but we didn't identify any of the specials of the region (as we just didn't know what we were doing then in comparison to now). We were not disappointed with our 3 hours of birding this...

H & I did our own walk this am. They offered us their radio but given there are no serious predators and a jackal is going to be more scared of me than me of him/her, I didn't think it was necessary. We just walked on the road out of the camp and down to the helicopter pad and then on the road toward the staff village. We saw a few birds but nothing new for...

Today has been a relatively relaxed and easy day. We woke up at around 6am when the sun was rising. Coffee, biscuits and some fruit and then we headed off to the dunes to do an hour of quad biking on the dunes. It is about a 30 minute drive to where the bikes are stored. It was just H & I and the guide (Denvil). They have definitely improved the Quad bikes since we were...

Helen had another first/lifer today. Polony at the breakfast buffet (buffet a bit of a stretch actually) this morning. Breakfast was us and the Transport Inspectorate (5 of whom were also staying at the guesthouse). You might ask what/who the 'Transport Inspectorate' is ... we would call them traffic cops/police. Seems in Namibia they have a much more important sounding name. We left at just before 8am this morning and headed to Hardap Dam to do...

We woke in the middle of the night with someone leaving at around 2am in the morning. First thought that crossed my mind is what have they stolen from us and now running off. Then rationality kicked in and I thought surely I would have heard them come in to chalet. But then again I was pretty fast asleep. Some quick checking by the light of cellphone and everything seemed to be where I left it...

This morning at 9am we left for a 2-week road trip to Namibia. It was a pretty uneventful first drive today covering just over 500 km as we headed north out of Cape Town on the Cape Namibia route. Once we had cleared the city limits the traffic was very light and the drive was really easy. We stopped at the Engen One-Stop on the N7 for two reasons - to refuel and to do some...