Reader Benjamin Taylor took a trip to southern Africa last year, and sent a lot of lovely photos. I have many more, but am rationing them out from time today. Here’s today’s batch, with Benjamin’s captions (indented).
The Damaraland landscape, Namibia:
More scenes from Namibia:
Namib rock agama (Agama planiceps):
Ancient rock engravings at Twyfelfontein (uncertain spring), Namibia:
‘Organ pipe’ rock formations, Namibia:
Welwitschia mirabilis – a remarkable plant found only in the Namib Desert. Individual plants can live to be thousands of years old, and in all that time they will only ever produce two leaves that grow continuously from the base.
Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus):
I’ll take a moment to say – this website WEIT is singular, remarkable. Nothing like it. And I used to be addicted to Reddit.
stunning pictures
Great!
I always love to see photos of Welwitschia! That is on my “bucket list” of plants I want to see before I die.
Marvelous!! The welwitshia is especially highly regarded as perhaps the worlds’ weirdest plant.
Beautiful photos of an exotic place! That Agama is spectacular…
Great work.
Fantastic photos and such a balanced mix!
Twyfel is Afrikaans I take it:
af: twyfel – sw: tvivel (with much the same pronunciation)- en: doubt, uncertainty.
The light in Africa is fantastic!
Very nice pictures. I’m a sucker for decaying trees and unusual rock formations.
What everyone else said. My favourites are the rock carvings. Amazing to think of people creating them so long ago in that very spot.