Overland pictures

Here are some of the many awesome pictures from the Overland trip:

Before arriving at our first campsite, we stopped in a small town to buy snacks...little did we know that you would be able to buy 1 kg bags of cheezies for a mere 5Rand ($1), we took a picture, but never bought them...shame!


Our first night was at Orange River where Anna and I swam to Namibia (across these buoys)

Then enjoyed the sunset from these cool showers

We then spent the night bonding with the group...and I tried to copy Anna's picture smile


The next day we crossed into Namibia (for real this time)

and our guide Walt stopped the truck (Stevie) in the middle of the dirt road and had us walk for 10 minutes in our own direction to take in the vastness of Namibia

Anna and I then rode on the top of the truck....backwards....and this is what that in combination with the desert does to my hair!


A Quiver Tree (Aloe)


Fish River Canyon




Colin talking to some local children


Anna and I at Dune 45






Deadvlei, Soussesvlei (a limestone riverbed with 1700yr old trees)

Me and Anna at Deadvlei....true desert troopers!

In the Pan


Anna and I by our tent in Solitaire

Shortly after we crossed the Tropic of Capricorn


Our last ocean stop of the Overland trip (Atlantic Ocean...Skeleton Coast)


Anna and I ran to this arch

Then climbed this rock in Spitzkoppe to watch yet another sunset

More of Spitzkoppe


Next we went to Otjititongwe Cheetah Park where we got to pet tame cheetahs


And watch the feeding of the wild ones



We also got to visit a Himba tribe...what beautiful and interesting people...

A Young Himba woman

Churning milk

A woman in the tribe who has German missionary influences

A young girl grinding ochre for her skin and hair

Himba children


Next stop...Etosha National Park

The watering hole at our campsite



The second day at Etosha was Anna's birthday...so she wore these jewels all day, and even let Walt wear some of them

Hanging out on the truck...looking for game


Game, game, and more game





Anna and I on another deadpan


We illegally crossed the border into Angola...

Apparently most of us were pretty happy to go


Has anyone ever told you that there are HUGE bugs in Africa!

Us on the Bus....errrr truck....again


Okavango Delta

On the mokoro

Nature walk

Our poler, Nelson

another poler

Lovin' it


Baby Crocodile

Hippos!



Anna and I back at camp


Chobe National Park
River cruise


We saw lots of elephants!


...and another African sunset



The group in front of Stevie


The Zambian Zambezi river cruise

Gessegie (Anna-Marie, our guide), Anna and me


Victoria Falls