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Sossusvlei. Sossus river sand up from sea and spread along back of dunes.
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Brackish vlei supports trees. 6 Oryx, 2 jackals. Many tracks crows.
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Sand bars building up a wall of sand in distance. Usually flats to seaward
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Salt pans supporting flamingoes. Walvis Bay
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Sandwich Harbour. Man-made exit. Walvisch Baaie
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Abraded rock, wind-smoothed sand. Southern end.
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Granite blocks cut from surface. Walvis Bay. South of Swakopmund
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Concretions of calrete near Uis tin mine. Okomba
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Marble table-top. Thin section concretions as at tin mine.
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Metallic iron pyrites, FeS, and green arsenic at iron mine.
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Martin Luther. To replace bullocks. Stuck in sand. I stay so help me god.
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Diamond mine and spoil heap
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Diamond dredger boats at Lamberts Bay. Suck gravel through pipes from shallows and get gems
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Walvis Bay port. No cargo handling. Sunday evening
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Desert road to deserted Uis tin mine. Namibia mirages as approached Hentys Bay. Roads round Swakopmund hard = sand and gypsum from saltmarsh sea as water poured over. Slings of netting keeps sand out of town.
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Astonishing spread of orange lichen. Depends on sea mists. Rare Damara terns nest only here. There are green lichen deserts in mist of morning. Dry up by midday.
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Teloschistes capensis dominates thousands of square kilometres. Swakopmund
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Zygophyllum simplex. Swakopmund River mouth. Brakkies.
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The Big Boy, 1,500 years old carbon-dated Welwitschia. Discovered 1859 by Welwitch, See page 23 of notebook
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Welwitschia, concave top of trunk collects water. Cones.
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Stalked female cones round concave trunk apex. Welwitschia
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Female cones, seed-bearing scales. Is advanced conifer
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Red nymphs of the bug Probergrothius sexpunctatis among female scales. Only on Welwatschia. A red reduvid bug preys on these bugs.
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Two copulating paris of bugs - Probergrothius sexpunctatis. Seek shade. Only female plants
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Kokerboon, quiver tree. San = bushmen used hollow branches for quivers. Water dripping down stems and ridge
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Cyphostemma currorii = Botterboom. Flaky yellow look.
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Cyphostemma currorii at sunset (redder). Vitaceae cissus.
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Fruits of Euphorbia. Brink of Otjikoto Sinkhole.
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Double termite mounds. Acacia erioloba = camelthorn
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Termite mound. Near Omaruru. Day 2. Namibia.
