We continue today down the Hoarasib river through Puros
Canyon, which is magnificent, we experience our first tyre problem with some
small stones getting between the Tyre and Tyre rim as we go through the slow
running water, it is decided to change the tyre and there are so many helpers
we are back on the road in under 15 minutes we stay in the river until we get
to the road to Amspoort where we enter the Hoanib River and head upstream to
Sesfontein where we hope we will find fuel although we do have 20 litres in a
jerry can and as luck would have it they got fuel the day before.
We see a fair amount of game in the river bed, but our
elephant expert Andreas tells us that the elephants are getting harassed as the
river beds have become a highway with the only restriction is that you need a
4x4 vehicle, in addition the locals are moving their cattle into the river,
which they are not supposed to and he predicts that in the next 4 years the
elephant will move across the Kunene river into Angola and they already have
evidence to support this migration. As in the rest of
Africa
the elephant cannot win what with poaching and human encroachment, what a shame.
We exit the river only to have to negotiate corrugated roads and huge dust holes, which reduces visibility to a couple of metres. After a long and dusty day covering 206kms we arrive at our last camp site at Khowarib.
Farewells are said and people relate their highlights and we get to bed quite late at 23h00.
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| Dust, dust and more dust |
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| Less dust |
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| Rock formations were also a feature of the Namibian landscape |
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| Puros Canyon |
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