Category Archives: Africa 2016

Early morning on the road in Namibia

Namibian roads are quite unforgiving.

Campsite at the Canon Roadhouse. Canon with an accent so it’s really canyon.

Canon Roadhouse is incredible. It’s surrounded by emptiness but has a pool, a bar, great food, and a campsite that is well equipped with showers, toilets, and electricity, water and light at your designated spot, but in the darkness under the starry sky it still feels isolated and wild. Perfect.

Gorgeous campsite, so Solo takes to the skies again and battles the wind to get a few shots before I head to the bar for dinner.

Canon Roadhouse bar and diner is full of old vehicles.

With country and western on the stereo, I enjoy a glass of Namibian Erongo Mountain Shiraz and an Oryx steak.

Apparently in Namibia service is always with a smile and a “glass” of the house red is half a bottle of sensational wine. I don’t know what on Oryx is but judging by the steak it’s about the size of an elephant. Delicious, in great surroundings which look even better as darkness falls and candles get lit up, and it costs me about a tenner.

These posts will probably all be out of order because of wifi craposity.

Fish River Canyon. Impressive, but it can’t compete with the grand canyon. Where it wins in the vast Martian landscape you have to cross to get to it.

Very windy but I risked flying the drone for a while. Poor Solo was wobbling and revving as he fought the wind but he didn’t crash and I got a few shots. Frightening to watch, but the footage is great. If only I could upload it…