Don't tell the flora people from the Mountain Club, but we spent some time on this trip trying to tell the quiver tree from the kokerboom :-P Eventually we got it figured out. This is a big old koker with little me.
















The Naukluft mountains, they may not look like much but there are unbelievably green kloofs in there. Even a moss covered waterfall that you have to haul yourself over with a chain ! And you get used to the varying shades of brown and the lie of the land, it kinda is what it is.











One of the chains with Nicola and Sam on opposite ends. This was the second day's walking into Ubusis kloof, truly beautiful, once you get past the panic about bees and hornets :-)











Our packs with Bruce doing what *cough* real men do.














Here kitty kitty. We went to a place called Hammerstein and they had a few cats in the backyard, a cheetah (I found the cheetah's golden eyes mesmerising) who we could get fairly close to and this leopard. The leopard had a big f*** you thing about her hence the fence. They also had rooikatte who were a bit pissed off that we were disturbing their nap so lots of hissing happened.