Africa Wild

Mel wrote: ↑Mon Apr 02, 2018 7:56 pm I read through the instalments and marvelled at the many birds that you saw somewhen during the afternoon.
Lovely accommodation they got on offer, I must say! And it's great to be out with a person who shares your
love and patience for the birds. The SO sometimes lacks a bit of the latter when I make him drive backwards
and forwards... at least for the small one

The wild horse sighting is something really special. Saw a documentary on TV about them quite some time
ago and it also stated that one would be lucky to get to see them. Well done to the two of you

thank you Mel
love and patience... not only for birds, for all things, large or tiny often we got the same picture without concerting
yes, we got lovely accomodations, with or without kitchen.... it was not a problem for us

Just catching up here. Would love to see wild horses...beautiful!

thank you Flutts
yes it was magical

Wild horses

One of my favorite poems of all times is "Ride A Wild Horse" by Hannah Kahn

Your experience captured it beautifully. Thank you

ExFmem wrote: ↑Tue Apr 03, 2018 12:53 am Wild horses

One of my favorite poems of all times is "Ride A Wild Horse" by Hannah Kahn

Your experience captured it beautifully. Thank you

thank you
It was like a poem....

11.3 Luderitz NP
We decide this morning to visit the ghost town of Kolmanskop, founded in 1908 ...




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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kolmanskop (Afrikaans for Coleman's hill, German: Kolmannskuppe) is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia, 10 kilometres inland from the port town of Lüderitz. It was named after a transport driver named Johnny Coleman who, during a sand storm, abandoned his ox wagon on a small incline opposite the settlement.[1] Once a small but very rich mining village, it is now a tourist destination run by the joint firm Namibia-De Beers.
In 1908, the worker Zacharias Lewala found a diamond while working in this area and showed it to his supervisor, the German railway inspector August Stauch. Realizing the area was rich in diamonds, German miners began settlement, and soon after the German government declared a large area as a "Sperrgebiet", starting to exploit the diamond field.[2]
Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built the village in the architectural style of a German town, with amenities and institutions including a hospital, ballroom, power station, school, skittle-alley, theatre and sport-hall, casino, ice factory and the first x-ray-station in the southern hemisphere, as well as the first tram in Africa. It had a railway link to Lüderitz.
The town started to decline after World War I when the diamond-field slowly started to deplete. By the early-’30s, the area was in decline. Hastening the town’s demise was the discovery in 1928 of the richest diamond-bearing deposits ever known. These were on the beach terraces 270km south of Kolmanskop, near the Orange River. Many of the town’s inhabitants joined the rush to the south, leaving their homes and possessions behind. The new diamond find merely required scouting the beaches as opposed to more difficult mining. The town was ultimately abandoned in 1954. The geological forces of the desert mean that tourists now walk through houses knee-deep in sand. Kolmanskop is popular with photographers for its settings of the desert sands' reclaiming this once-thriving town. Due to its location within the restricted area (Sperrgebiet) of the Namib desert, tourists need a permit to enter the town.
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arriving at Kolmanskop

outside

inside

Then towards the beaches, a little further south, to Diaz. Once again there are plenty of birds Gannets and then a group of Sardines jumps to avoid the Gulls ... who fish.

Cape Cormorants are going to fishing place

African black Oystercatcher and Cormorants

Greater Flamingo

Michele I can't find the Gannets did I was dreaming