Day 20 – Etosha to Swakopmund
We had to be out at 7:30 today, with tents packed. Ian was well angry, as everyone has lost tent pegs. I reckon he’s lost our pegs so has stolen ours instead.
On bus at the moment. We saw a hyena eating the remnants of a zebra. Vultures or whatever they are were ready for third pickings. I so wanted to get out of the bus. It annoys me that all we see are restricted views of 2D shapes, apparently animals. There’s no interaction! It barely feels like they live in the wild, what with a great fuck-off road nearby.
Just seen a male springbok. I know it’s a male ‘cos of it’s enormous bollocks! Why do all animals have such large bollocks? How on Earth can they run with such things between their legs? Surely they must trip over them. I’d hate to be a zebra with massive thighs. I bet they get crunched all the time. Maybe that’s why they walk looking like they’ve got a pole up their arses. They’re trying to prevent nut-cracking.
On that… elephants. Just thinking back to last night. They’re very large, slow creatures. How the hell is a guy elephant able to perform? He can hardly lift one hoof let alone ‘mount’.
Just had a thought. In Tubusis, I found a sign saying ‘Dik Melk for sale’. I’m sure we can all acknowledge what that means. I’ve now realised why animal bollocks are so massive, so that the ‘milk’ can be marketed and sold to the Namibian population. Clearly demand must be high, so animal bollocks are swelling! A bit like demand for cows milk in England, where you see great big heffers with enormous udders awaiting milking.
Been for a night out in Swakopmund. Well good do. Everyone got proper slaughtered for something or another. Fraser’s private life came up!
Happy drinking tonight really. No one’s gotten off their face which is good. Need to be right for sand boarding tomorrow.
Started reading ‘A good man in Africa’ today after giving up on the shambles that was ‘Brave New World’. One chapter in and already interesting.
Just remembered about my pizza… they’d run out of seafood! I had to have chicken instead. I don’t get it. How can a restaurant situated in a town right next to the coast be out of seafood?! All they have to do is walk down to the end of the road for some ingredients.
Also, went to the market today. Got a wicked mask reduced from N$450 to N$180. I also got a bracelet for N$50 which is cool. Becca managed to break it however. Nick’s been playing with the market men, pretending to be Japanese as he haggles down the price. He did quite well apparently.
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