spitzkoppe
At Spitzkoppe there are no predators so we got to sleep out under the stars.
As the sun set in the west.
The supermoon rose in the east.
So it was not a very dark night when we went to bed.
But then after midnight the moon began to go reddish.
And it got redder and darker until it was in a full eclipse.
And then you could see all of the stars. And tons of shooting stars.
But we were lazy and it was cold so we didn’t get up to find the tripod. So that’s all the pictures you get.
This is a female namib rock agama.
And here is the male chasing her.
He looks very different from her.
The rocks at Spitzkoppe had a lot of rock hyraxes.
You could spot their pee rocks from very far away.
They are pretty cute.
They like to hide in the shade in the cracks.
And poke their heads out to keep an eye on you.
Spitkoppe is a bunch of rocks sticking out of a flat desert.
It has some weird aloe trees but not much other vegetation.
This is the actual Spitzkoppe mountain, in case you speak German and are wondering.
There are a lot of rocks.
And they make pretty shapes.
This one kind of almost looks like a hippo. But not a happy hippo.
This is Kerri trying to hold up the arch. She doesn’t understand that jumping to hold something up is not very effective.
Here is Matt showing her how to properly hold up a rock.
It kind of looks like Uluru in some places.
But it is rough granite, not sandstone.
And it has more small bouldery bits.
It made Matt feel very adventurous.
