We left the campground and drove of towards Windhoek. We saw a warthog, although we had seen plenty of those already. On the way, we crossed the Tropic of Capricorn.
At midday on December 21, the poles holding up the sighn cast no shadow.
At one point we saw a goshawk on top of a cactus.
Before we knew it, we were in Windhoek. Our first destination was The Joy of Food. The restaurant that we go to every time we are in Windhoek.
Daddy enjoys a cappuccino at The Joy of Food.
Sam lost Cheetie at The Joy of Food.
After The Joy of Food, we went to the Windhoek National Botanical Gardens. They had a whole greenhouse dedicated to desert plants, most of wich were succulents!
Succulents at the garden
After the greenhouse, we saw an agama lizard.
We’d decided to go to the aloe walk. When the first entrance was blocked, we took the second one. Everything seemed unhealthy, but then we realized that it was winter.
The dead vegetation
The aloes were pretty, but dead
The aloes
When we got to the other side, we found that the way was blocked by the same caution tape that blocked us earlier. We headed to the pachypodims.
The pachypodims
On the way back, I saw 4 agama lizards and a dassie. It can also be called a rock hyrax.
The dassie
I find it amusing that there is a colony of elephants closest living relatives living on a traffic island in the middle of the city.
At the end of the botanical gardens, there was a botanical reaserch centre and they gave us shirts, hats, cards, flashlights, and notebooks. We stopped at The Joy of Food to looked for Cheetie. When that failed we went through the mall to to eat dinner. On the way back, the mall was closed, so we had to take a detour through a dark alley way with casinos and bars on either side. The whole while someone was following behind us. When we reached the parking garage, we found that Mama’s purse had been stolen. The most valuable thing in there was her sunglasses. It was unfortunate that Mama had put her unopened candy bars and packets. The hotel we where staying in had white winged guinea fowl, chickens, and bunnies.
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