Swakop to Cape Town
08.01.2008 The end of our “holiday” no more bird stops. Sion and I have both clocked 10 000 photo’s on this trip – so a lot of work still to be done in the sorting and processing. So a long drive back via Windhoek, with plenty more road blocks, most of which just waved us through. I think we have had a total of about 20 in our 6000km trip around Namibia. We worked out our next stop time wise and phoned to book rooms at the Orange River Lodge at Noordoewer, which is the Namibian side of the border post. We were pleasantly surprised by the nice accommodation – double rooms with shower and toilet plus desk and cupboard and self catering facilities. A wonderful garden in front of the rooms along with bar and restaurant which served yummy lamb chops and burgers. Ideal if you have kid with you too. By the way – you can change over to the RSA Vodacom cell network – no more international call rates, which makes phoning home a pleasure. 09.01.2008 Final leg of our journey started at 04h00. Extremely windy for most of the way, so the driving wasn’t easy. No stopping unless to change drivers and for a Wimpy breakfast in Klawer – no more birds. So our bird list for this trip is 360. I got 76 new birds, Sion got 70, Mags got 23 and Trevor got 1. So all in all a very successful trip!.