The Adventures of Kerri & Matt

There was a lot of sand in the desert.

The wind was really strong and blew the sand over the edges of the dunes. This is what makes the dunes move.

There are a lot of dunes.

In every direction.

The wind blows the lighter sand more than the heavier sand, which are different colours, so they make pretty patterns.

It makes dark and light patterns on the dune.

The ripple patterns are very pretty.

The sand has lots of different colours.

The darker bits are irony. They stick to the magnets in Matt’s jacket.

This is a horned adder.

That’s his name because he has little horn.

He leaves these tracks in the sand.

And then buries himself near a plant with just his head sticking out.

So that his prey can’t see him.

When it prey gets close he will wiggle the tip of his tail so that it thinks it is a bug and gets really close.

Then he will strike.

Swakopmund is an old German city in the little strip between the sand dunes and the ocean.

It is a very tiny strip.

There are many cool insects in the desert. Sometimes they are hard to find though because they don’t come out much.

These are the most common type of beetle.

They make these tracks.

Something else makes these tracks.

If you sift through the sand you can find even more things.

Here’s another toki toki beetle. There are hundreds of different species of these insects.

They tend to run along the surface but can burrow too.

Here’s another different toki toki.

This bird isn’t creepy or crawly, but he doesn’t fit anywhere else so he’s going here. He was cute and hung out with us for a bit while we looked for the creepy crawlies.