PS did anyone watch Logans run last night starring Michael York?

What a classic, sooooo funny,
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Home sweet home

Happy to be home, still got jetlag, back at work next Wednesday - do I have to? :)
My laptop crashed again, I'm just waiting for HP to send me a courier package so I can get it repaired. You will have to all be patient with me to see the photos, as my laptop issues stopped me from processing any of the photos while I was away. I still can't do any now. I only managed last night to get it to work long enough to have my first good look at the Namibian photos, so it is going to take me weeks before I can show anyone.
C'est la vie! Think I want an IPAD...
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The worst predators - taxi drivers in Windhoek!

They charged me 50 Namibian rand for like a 2 minute trip, the shopkeepers said that was a ripoff, but what can you do? I'll hopefully get a shuttle to the airport, at least I've been shopping!!!! Might go again in the AM,
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Predators

When we arrived at the Kuala lodge they explained that there were no fences around the lodge, and there were animals roaming but not predators! Um thats good :)
They did warn us to look out for scorpions & snakes though (common). As there are no phones in the room we had a horn to blow in an emergency and a snake/scorpion handler would come running to our rooms. Very funny was so careful but we all survived. Shem however did leave his sandles outside his room in the desert lodge and there was a scorpion in them the next morning so I was very careful after that :)
On the way on my trip (on the road)I've seen baboons, springboks, oryx, a jackal, a falcon, giant cricket looking insects (forget the name) ostriches, but no zebra, oh well next time!
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End of the road

The workshop is over, I got dropped off back at Windhoek about an hour ago. It was really great and I learned a lot but my Sony equipment didn't stand up to the test. I'm going to go Nikon when I get back, but will have to payoff the credit card first, and then save the pennies. The sand dunes at Susselvei (or Sausageville as we named it) are spectacular. We didn't climb any of them including Dune 45 - we were there for photography. A lot of red tape stopped us from getting into the park at right times before and after sunset/sunrise, even though we were supposed to have exclusive access at these times. I wonder what it would have been like? It doesn't matter as it was still fantastic. I would definitely go back! I think actually my favourite pictures are from the Namibrand - but I've got many hours of processing to do when I get back! First up though I will need to get my laptop fixed - I managed to fix the hard disc fault myself, but there is still something amiss.
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They didn't pick me :(

Just had the best night, after dinner the staff came out singing and dancing, it was soooo beautiful and tribal, 2 men were playing the drums, I wanted to get up and dance sooooooooo badly. Thought they would pick people at the end and they did, and usually I would just get up anyway but I missed my opportunity.
:(
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Greetings from Sossulvei

We just arrived at our lodge, have had lunch and heading out to the dunes for the first time in 90 minutes. Our lodge has been downgraded- very dissappointed, the Kuala Lodge had plunge pools in each room, this one doesn't, I was soooooooo looking forward to it, but at least there is still a pool and a bed on the rooftop so you can sleep under the stars, I'm going to give it a go I think! If there are too many bugs or I don't feel safe I'll go back to the bed tomorrow night. I've been learning heaps but everyone else has already done a few of these photographic workshops and I'm a bit behind. Also my camera equipment is not as expensive as theirs and last night we were doing star shots and my camera wasn't good enough to take them. So it wasn't the technical experience or creativity that stopped me but the money!!
Maybe I'll have to upgrade to Nikon....
Sossulvei is the reason I'm here so I'm excited about the photos this afternoon.
Stay tuned....
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