No not the puppet “Sooty & Sweep” of my TV youth but a Sooty Shearwater circling the ship as we shark bait.
As you know I leave the ship tomorrow morning in Walvis Bay for a 4 day Safari to the Onguma Plains. I should be back aboard late on Friday evening when I re-join the ship in Cape Town. I then have two busy days in Cape Town so postings may be a bit sparse for the next 5/6 days. I am going to take my mobile so providing the Fort where we are staying has a reasonable Wi-Fi I will try and get a few short postings and photos on the Blog.
I disembark at 8.15am tomorrow and have a 2-hour flight in a Cessna four seater aircraft to the Mokuti Airstrip. The 5* hotel is in a renovated German Fort so as our Expedition Leader in the Antarctic would have said “You are going on a gin Safari (Gin palace cruise)”. The hotel boasts ‘one of the best sunset views in the whole of Namibia – from my private verandah of course! – overlooking the beautiful scarceness of the Etosha Pans, decorated with only its wild animals and hundreds of Camel Thorn trees that dot the landscape and in full view of a waterhole at which various species of buck, giraffe, lion, zebra and birds come to drink and frolic daily”!! Are you jealous yet!!
Well I will do my best to share what promises to be a unique experience through the Blog on my return.
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