My morning view over the Kunene River....I would have no problem at all waking up to this on a regular basis....
This morning after a leisurely breakfast, we are off on a boat trip upstream....a quick walk down to the river bank is all that is required of us....
The water is a beautiful aqua colour - Andre tells us that this water is as clean as it gets as there are no farms or factories further upstream to pollute it & the river has about 70 species of fish in it....long may it last....Yesterday's path of descent into camp....viewed from the river....impressed??
There are some seriously huge crocs sunning themselves on the river bank, a mere nose length away from the beautiful Nguni cows of the local Himba clan coming down to the waters edge to quench their thirst...
We come to some rapids where Andre deems it safe to swim so we all take a very welcome dip....the water is absolutely divine and we prolong the swim to make this final day last a bit longer....
After one last look at camp from the river, we pack up and head back to the airstrip & the trusty AMY. The Wilderness plane, with passengers from Serra Cafema which is just downstream, takes off just before us and we're hot on her heels all the way to the refuelling stop at Opuwo....over the Marienfluss Valley...
En route we fly through a rain shower...the only bit of rain we've seen this trip.
I promise you I haven't doctored this next photo..the clouds really did look like this closer to Windhoek....
Hosea Kutako International Airport to drop Paul off for his SAA flight to Cape Town...
AUF WIEDERSEHN
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