Sunday, September 27, 2009

Etosha National Park 3 - 60 km from my site.

Picture of zebra and wildebeest on the savannah.
Bunch of zebras at the road.

Bunch of Zebras at a famous watering hole.


Closer in on the zebras.



Zebra on the side of the road, a few meters from the car.





Three zebras i asked to stand in a line for a picture.





More zebras.





More zebras. Forest fire burning in the background.







Sepia zebra.









More zebras on the savanah.









Dune 7 outside of Swakupmund. Third or fourth highest sand dune in the world.










Beach in Swakupmund. It was freezing at this time of year.










Flamingos in Welvis Bay. Walvis Bay is an industrial town just south of Swakupmund.












View from the top of dune 7. It takes some work to get to the top.














Golfing outside of Swakupmund. Springbok on the course.














Rhino at the watering hole at our campsite. They are supposed to be rare; we saw three of them.














Rhino after it ran away from the elephant.
















Another rhino at the watering hole.

















Sunday, September 13, 2009

Etosha National Park 2 - + some Swakupmund

Hiking along the top of dune 7. The third or fourth highest dune in the world.
More hiking. Levi (Peace Corps Volunteer), myself, Greg (my friends dad).

More hiking. Mark (Peace Corps Volunteer), Levi, Myself.


Picture at watering hole in Etosha. Lars (Marks Brother), Mark, Myself, Levi.



Another picture at the watering hole. Greg, Mark, Myself, Levi.




Greg at the watering hole.





Mark standing outside the car for a picture. ...probably a lion in there somewhere.

Mark and Greg on the putting green in Swakupmund.


Myself with my perfected baseball swing on the golf course.

Greg with his perfected golf swing. ...he killed us.

Levi, Mark, and Greg on the golf course.

Mark on the tee. Hes from MN so he probably missed this ball.

Greg letting one go.


Levi, missing the ball by 6 inches...

Springbok on the course.


Mark posing for a shot.

Myself launching one at a pringbok in the distance.


Greg, showing us how to golf.

Levi, myself, and mark at one of the watering holes in Etosha.

Levi, Myself and Mark.


Levi and myself looking good.

Mark and his brother Lars.

The Granrud family. Lars, Mark, and Greg.


The tents on top of the cars to keep the critters and lions out. Two people in each tent. Mark drew the short straw and got the colorful tent on the ground. Tents were very comfortable.


Sitting up after a night of viewing the watering hole. Good times.

Greg, Mark, Lars on the Etosha Pan.

Mark and Lars at the hotel bar before the adventure began.

Us walking around on the Etosha Pan.

The Etosha Pan.

Shot from the pan of the Etosha Pan.

Rhinos at the watering hole by our campsite at night.

Rhino and elephant at the watering hole by our campsite at night.

Lions at the watering hole at our campsite at night. ...Four of them total.

Elephants at the watering hole at our campsite at night.

Twenty or thirty elephants at the watering hole by our campsite at night.

More elephants that same night.

...More elephants that same night.

...More elephants that same night.

...More elephants that same night.

...More rhinos that same night.

...More elephants that same night.


...More elephants that same night.

...More elephants that same night.


...More rhinos that same night.

...More elephants that same night.

Another lion at the watering hole.

Another lion at the watering hole.

Watering hole at sunset at the campsite.

Elephant at sunset at the watering hole by our campsite.

...More elephants that same night.

Lion in the distant.


Another shot of the lion.

Lion at the watering hole.
Giraffe and baby at the entrance of the park.

Giraffe eating a tree.

Close up of giraffe.


Two Giraffes.

Giraffes.


Sepia giraffes.


Giraffe in the distance.

Forest first burning in the distant.

Another shot of the forest fire.


Forest fire and zebras.


Forest fire and more zebras.

Forest fire..

Elephants at watering hole at our campsite.

Elephant we drove by.


We were driving along the road on our way back to the campsite the last night we were here. All the sudden we saw this huge bull elephant. We turned the car around and started driving alongside it. It was about 4 meters from the car. Then it suddenly turns and charges the car. It got about a meter away before we got the car in gear and took off. It caught us off guard and this was the only picture we were able to get. ...It was a little freaky having an elephant charge thats twice as big as the truck.

Elephant near the etosha pan. Springbok in the foreground.

Elephants in the distance.

Elephant at the campsite watering hole.

...more elephants at the campsite watering hole.

Elephant and rhino standoff at the watering hole near our campsite.

...another elephant at the campsite watering hole.

Two Orx at a watering hole.

Orx in the water at a watering hole.

Orx near a watering hole.

Eland in the forest.


Kudu roaming the forest. ...Kudu are the biggest type of deer. ...about the size of a horse when full grown. ...They are a big reason its so dangerous to drive at night...lot of people hit them.

Two springbok battling.

Two springbok still battling.

Eland (I think) on the side of the road.

Another shot of the eland.

Orx in the distance.


Another Orx.

Springbok eating.