Keetmanshoop, Mariental & Hardap Dam
Martial Eagle
Martial Eagle, Polemaetus bellicosus, watches from a Quiver Tree as we neared Keetmanshoop in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia, Africa.
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South African Shelduck
We saw these ducks, Male & Female South African Shelduck, Tadorna cana, beside a roadside dam before we arrived at Keetmanshoop in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia, Africa.
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Quiver Tree Forest
Quiver Trees Aloe dichotoma in the Quiver Tree Forest at Keetmanshoop in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia, Africa. Bushmen use its branches to make quivers.
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Quiver Trees
Quiver Trees Aloe dichotoma at Keetmanshoop in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia, Africa.
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Quiver Tree Forest
Quiver Trees Aloe dichotoma in the Quiver Tree Forest at Keetmanshoop in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia, Africa.
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Quiver Trees
Quiver Tree Aloe dichotoma in black rock formations at Keetmanshoop in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia, Africa. The black rocks absorb a lot of the heat in summer. Average summer temperature is 38 degrees in the Quiver Tree Forest.
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Kokerboom Woud
Quiver Trees Aloe dichotoma at Keetmanshoop in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia, Africa.
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Quiver Tree
Quiver Tree Aloe dichotoma growing on the flat plain at Keetmanshoop in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia, Africa.
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Cape Ground Squirrel
Busy Cape Ground Squirrel Xerus inauris rummaging around the Quiver Tree Forest in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia, Africa.
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Central Lodge
Not a blade of green grass at Central Lodge at Keetmanshoop in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia, Africa.
Photographed March 2014 - © 2014 Lesley Bray Photography - All Rights Reserved.
Sunset at Keetmanshoop
Sunset at Central Lodge at Keetmanshoop in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia, Africa.
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Flying Insect
Flying Insect on the window sill at Central Lodge, Keetmanshoop in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia, Africa.
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Rhenish Mission Church
Rhenish Mission Church at Keetmanshoop in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia, Africa. The church was rebuilt by members of the Nama community after the previous building was washed away by the Aub River in 1890.
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Keetmanshoop Wetland
We visited these wetlands at Keetmanshoop early in the morning in search of birds in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia, Africa.
Photographed March 2014 - © 2014 Lesley Bray Photography - All Rights Reserved.
Pygmy Toad
We were looking for birds but surrounded by hundreds of these very small toads in the wetland at Keetmanshoop in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia, Africa. Photo is blown right up so the toad can be seen more clearly in the mud. It could be a Pygmy Toad.
Photographed March 2014 - © 2014 Lesley Bray Photography - All Rights Reserved.
Grey-backed Sparrowlarks
Male & female Grey-backed Sparrowlarks, Eremopterix verticalis, at Keetmanshoop Wetland in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia, Africa. These birds are very small and totally blend into their environment. You are really looking for a movement before you have any chance of spotting them.
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Renovated Farm Carriages
Renovated Farm Carriages beside the road outside Keetmanshoop in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia, Africa.
Photographed March 2014 - © 2014 Lesley Bray Photography - All Rights Reserved.
Black-shouldered Kite
Black-shouldered Kite Elanus caeruleus, after we left Keetmanshoop in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia, Africa.
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Gibeon Turnoff
Unlike most other locations in Namibia, the land around Mariental in the Hardap Region of Namibia, Africa is not surround by mountains and unusual land formations. The country is very flat here.
Photographed March 2014 - © 2014 Lesley Bray Photography - All Rights Reserved.
No Hitchhiking
Hitchhiking definitely not permitted at Mariental in the Hardap Region of Namibia, Africa.
Photographed March 2014 - © 2014 Lesley Bray Photography - All Rights Reserved.
Hardap Dam
Hardap Dam at Mariental in the Hardap Region of Namibia, Africa.
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Hardap Land Formations
Land formations at the Hardap Dam, Mariental, in Hardap Region of Namibia, Africa.
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Hardap Dam
Entrance at Hardap Dam at Marientalin the Hardap Region of Namibia, Africa.
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Hardap Dam
Overlooking Hardap Dam at Mariental in the Hardap Region of Namibia, Africa.
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Hardap Dam
Hardap Dam at Mariental in the Hardap Region of Namibia, Africa.
Photographed March 2014 - © 2014 Lesley Bray Photography - All Rights Reserved.
Cactus Garden
Unfortunately all tourism facilities have been closed at Hardap Dam, due to ownership disputes over renovation costs (as of October 2012). Here we see a forgotton cactus garden in front of abandoned buildings at Hardap Dam, Mariental in the Hardap Region of Namibia, Africa.
Photographed March 2014 - © 2014 Lesley Bray Photography - All Rights Reserved.
Hardap Dam
Quiver trees Aloe dichotoma, at Hardap Dam, abandoned buildings in the rear, Mariental in the Hardap Region of Namibia, Africa.
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Koringkrieke
Armoured Katydid, or Koringkrieke, Acanthoplus discoidalis on the road at Mariental in the Hardap Region of Namibia, Africa. I think he is holding food in his nippers or perhaps eating another Koringkrieke.
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Koringkrieke
Armoured Katydid, or Koringkrieke, Acanthoplus discoidalis on the road at Mariental in the Hardap Region of Namibia, Africa.
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Koringkrieke
Stopped to look at these unusual plants growing beside the road and found they were covered in Koringkrieke Acanthoplus discoidalis, north of Mariental in the Hardap Region of Namibia, Africa.
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Koringkrieke
Armoured Katydid, or Koringkrieke, Acanthoplus discoidalis on the road at Mariental in the Hardap Region of Namibia, Africa.
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Southern Pale Chanting Goshawk
In Mariental, we saw this Southern Pale Chanting Goshawk, Melierax canoras in the Hardap Region of Namibia, Africa.
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Mariental Wetland
A wetland we visited at Mariental in the Hardap Region of Namibia, Africa.
Photographed March 2014 - © 2014 Lesley Bray Photography - All Rights Reserved.
Chacma Baboons
Chacma Baboons in a dry river bed north of Mariental in the Hardap Region of Namibia, Africa.
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Chacma Baboons
Chacma Baboons scatter as I approach, in a creek bed near Mariental in the Hardap Region of Namibia, Africa.
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Booted Eagle
Booted Eagle, Aquila pennatus, near Mariental in the Hardap Region of Namibia, Africa. The eagle was swooping down to gather grass for it's nest.
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Tower
Mobile phone tower near Mariental in the Hardap Region of Namibia, Africa.
Photographed March 2014 - © 2014 Lesley Bray Photography - All Rights Reserved.
We stopped for lunch, when these locals with their donkey cart were passing by. It was starting to rain and the man approached us. We offered him food and water, but he declined saying he only needed plastic bag to protect their phones in the rain. North of Mariental in the Hardap Region of Namibia, Africa.
Photographed March 2014 - © 2014 Lesley Bray Photography - All Rights Reserved.
Insect at Mariental in Hardap Region, Namibia, West Coast, Africa.
Insect at Mariental in Hardap Region, Namibia, West Coast, Africa.
Tower
Mobile phone tower near Mariental in Hardap Region, Namibia, West Coast, Africa.
