Desert Elephants

Well, yesterday didn't go exactly as planned. Our driver had a bad day. First, the truck ran out of diesel about 50 km from the nearest town. That ate up about 5 hours for our driver to go get some fuel and then get a ride back out to us. That put us pretty far off our schedule on a long drive day. Then, shortly after dark he made a wrong turn and we wound up having to camp for the night quite a bit north of the planned stop.

Today was better. We did a stop at Twyfelfontein to see the ancient rock etchings and then made it to Brandberg mountain a little before sunset and setup camp in a dry riverbed. We had all barely gotten out tents setup when a family of Desert Elephants came strolling down riverbed. It was not light enough to shoot RED footage, but I did shoot some stills. Hopefully we might see them again tomorrow morning.

Ancient rock etchings at Twyfelfontein


Desert Elephant


Desert Elephant family