Vast Areas Of Nothingness
Note: A short supplement to my previous post here about our Namibian adventures, mainly to share the wildlife images.
Etosha National Park in Nambia is not what I expected.
It’s like a vast, seemingly never-ending, area of scrubland. Rough, mostly flat, with some areas of nothingness and little vegetation. Other parts however are full of thick undergrowth and trees, so dense that you just cannot see what, if anything, is lurking just a few metres away from the track. And the waterholes, some natural, others clearly made to ensure that those animals living in the park manage to survive in the harshest of conditions.
And then you have the Etosha Pan. a “vast, bare, open expanse of shimmering green and white that covers 4,800 square kilometres.” The largest salt pan in Africa, visible from space (a fact that I love) and home to vast swathes of wildlife including tens of thousands of migrating flamingos.
Add to this our adventures in Damaraland tracking desert-adapted wild elephants and our brief Namibian adventure was perfect for experiencing animals that we all recognise, and many we don’t, in their natural habitat.
Our timing was a little off, we arrived after an exceptionally wet period, the wettest for well over 10 years, so many animals were spoilt for choice, avoiding the waterholes and finding what they needed elsewhere. But we experienced so much during our few days that we can hardly complain.
I took many, many photographs in the hope that a few were good enough for me to share here, Hopefully I succeeded.
