First collage attempt.
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Fish River Canyon
This is Fish River Canyon.
It’s in Namabia.
It is huge.
We haven’t been to the grand canyon so we can’t really compare it to that.
It seemed pretty impressive.
There are a few plants growing around here and they are really weird.
Wouldn’t you agree?
The bark is cool looking.
Here’s another odd plant.
I think they were related to aloe but I can’t remember anymore.
In a couple places there were these little ones all over the place.
Other places looked pretty empty with just us and rocks.
At different times of the year they have organized hikes down into the canyon but it is very weather dependent as the temperatures can be above 40C in some places.
The canyon winds all through the area.
We stayed to watch sunset which was quite pretty, but not as red as most African sunsets we had seen.
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Other Dunes
There were lots of other dunes that we didn’t get to climb.
This made Kerri sad because she wanted to climb them all.
Actually she wanted to run down them.
Climbing up was rather hot and tiring.
But there were far too many to climb.
So we just had to look at the pretty dunes.
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Deadvlei
Between some of the dunes is an old dead marsh.
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The dunes moved slowly and cut off its water supply causing it to dry up and become dead.
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Leaving an empty patch of dried pale mud.
And a bunch of dead trees, which you can’t really see from the top.
The mud also isn’t as white at it appears from the top. It is very dry.
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World’s Biggest Sandbox
Today we got to play in the world’s biggest sandbox.
With sand mountains you can run down.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
The sand was very fine and got kicked up everywhere.
Particularly when you fell.
Or ran.
Or rolled.
Matt rolled too.
Kerri tried to make sand angels but it didn’t work very well.
But it was still fun.
The sand got everywhere.
Especially into your shoes.
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