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Subaru Outback appreciation post: 6032km, four people, roof box, camp fridge, tar, dirt, sand, mud, 8.1l/100km. And not a single issue. (Apologies to the insect life of Namibia.)

Everything at times of transition takes on a symbolic weight and power. But this too is why he travels. The world you’re moving through flows into another one inside, nothing stays divided anymore, this stands for that, weather for mood, landscape for feeling, for every object there is a corresponding inner gesture, everything turns into metaphor. The border is a line on the map, but also drawn inside himself somewhere. — Damon Galgut

Kalahari nights 🦂 🔦 💅🏼

Windhoek in the time of Covid. PCR tests done (all negative 🙏) see you in a few days, SA.

Hippos and hippo-watcher, Ngepi Camp. That’s one of their famous ‘tree houses’, right on the edge of the Okavango 🦛

Jumping into 2022 like these dudes into Ngepi Camp’s croc-proof pool in the Okavango River. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve edited magazine stories featuring Ngepi. So glad to finally experience it in all its laid-back glory 🐊🦉🍭

Bye bye, Bwabwata 🐆

Christmas in the bush🎄

Summertime on the Kwando floodplain in Bwabwata National Park, where we met up with the intrepid grandparents who drove across from Kasane in Botswana after visiting friends there. (Two negative PCR tests later…) I just wish I had a 600mm lens to photograph all the magnificent birds, instead of a 50mm portrait lens 🔭 The trees are equally magnificent. What a place.

@jess_blumenthal has found nirvana

Nine days ago, we crossed the Orange River. Today, we watched a lightning storm over the Okavango River, two-thousand-something kilometres from home. That’s Angola on the other side, where it’s an hour earlier than on the Namibian bank 🤔

All things great and small 🙏

Merry Christmas everyone 🍻🇳🇦✨

Etosha traverse 😍

Pool day ☀️ 🇳🇦

Etosha. Everyone said don’t go to Nambia in summer. Very strange advice!

Sunrise in the Kalahari

Hot wind gusting up from the bottom of the canyon. A lukewarm beer on the edge. Dust, electricity in the sky, the sun always in your eyes. Just, huge.

I told the kids we might see a thunderstorm and Namibia dished one up on the first day. Satiated desert, happy photographer 🌈

Cheers South Africa. See you in a couple of weeks 🏜

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