Farm Olifantwater

Runway 19 at Olifantwater (S23 39.6/E018 23.2)	Cessna 182 V5-JOG flying over Olifantwater West	Farmhouse - Olifantwater West	V5-FIS at Olifantwater West
Gathered around on the first afternoon of our arrival	Stephanie and the Donkey	Christian and Stephanie	Sunset, Olifantwater West, Namibia
Cessna at sunset, Olifantwater West	Sunset, Farm Olifantwater West, Namibia	Sunset, Farm Olifantwater West, Namibia	Sunset, Farm Olifantwater West, Namibia
Cow and airplane, Farm Olifantwater West	Cow and Cessna at Sunset, Farm Olifantwater West	Cactus, Olifantwater West	The old donkey, Olifantwater West
V5-FIS at Olifantwater West	Glossy Starling, Namibia	Yellow-bellied Greenbul (Chlorocichla flaviventris)	A Namibian farmer must be a good mechanic
Wind mill - The Aermotor, Chicago	Pens at Olifantwater West	Cape Griffon Vulture (Gyps coprotheres)	Cape Griffon Vulture (Gyps coprotheres), Olifantwater West, Namibia
Heading for the first dune, Farm Olifantwater West	Top of the first dune, Farm Olifantwater West	Up on the first done, Farm Olifantwater West	Farm Olifantwater West
View from the dune, Farm Olifantwater West	Kalahari red sand, Farm Olifantwater West	Kalahari dune, Farm Olifantwater West	Wandering along the dune, Farm Olifantwater West
Springbok, Farm Olifantwater West	Springbok, Farm Olifantwater West	Springbok, Farm Olifantwater West	Eckhart investigating a cow that recently gave birth
Cattle, Farm Olifantwater West	Farm Olifantwater West	Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill (Tockus leucomelas), Namibia	Farm Olifantwater West
Farm Olifantwater West	Farm Olifantwater West	Farm Olifantwater West	Farm Olifantwater West
Small calf among the cows, Farm Olifantwater West	For the first day or two, you can walk right up to a newborn calf	Farm Olifantwater West	Termite mound, Farm Olifantwater West
Termite mound, Farm Olifantwater West	Farm Olifantwater West	Farm Olifantwater West	Calf, Farm Olifantwater West
Eckhart and his ladies, Farm Olifantwater West	Cow and calf, Farm Olifantwater West	Farm Olifantwater West	The cows are fed mineral supplements
Farm Olifantwater West	Farm Olifantwater West	Farm Olifantwater West	Lilac Breasted Roller, Farm Olifantwater West
Lilac Breasted Roller in flight, Farm Olifantwater West	Farm Olifantwater West	Eckhart also has Damara sheep on the farm	Farm Olifantwater West
Gemsbok (oryx), Farm Olifantwater West	Ground water is pumped with wind-power	The farm is divided into camps by fences to prevent overgrazing of one area	Farm Olifantwater West
Farm Olifantwater West	Gemsbok in the distance, Farm Olifantwater West	Windrad, Farm Olifantwater West	Wind mill, Farm Olifantwater West
Baby gemsbok (oryx), Farm Olifantwater West	Baby gemsbok (oryx), Farm Olifantwater West	Springbok with a Kalahari dune in the background	Springbok should be nervous here...they're a regular on the farm's menu
Springbok, Farm Olifantwater West, Namibia	Springbok, Farm Olifantwater West	Eckhart cleaning out a water trough	Farm Olifantwater West
Farm Olifantwater West	The bull	Springbok	Kudu
Kudus easily leap the farm's fences	Kudu, Farm Olifantwater West	Windmill at the farmhouse, Olifantwater West	Water tank, Farm Olifantwater West
Windmill, Farm Olifantwater West	Farmhouse, Olifantwater West	The old donkey	One of my photos of Epupa Falls from 2005 made to look like an oil painting on canvas
Kater	Sunset from the dune, Farm Olifantwater West	Sundowners	Christian preparing the bar
Echhart preparing the fire	Eckhart preparing the fire	Fires start easily with the bone-dry wood	Campfire on the dune, Farm Olifantwater West
Anna and Ecki	Sunset, Farm Olifantwater West	Sundowners on the dune, Farm Olifantwater West	Sundowners on the dune, Farm Olifantwater West
Sundowners on the dune, Farm Olifantwater West	Stephanie, Christian, Brian, Johannes, Nicole, Reinhold, Anna, Ralph	Silhouettes on the dune, Olifantwater	Silhouettes on the dune, Olifantwater
Silhouettes on the dune, Olifantwater	Silhouettes on the dune, Olifantwater	Prost!	Sundowners on the dune, Olifantwater
Campfire on the dune at Olifantwater	Around the campfire, Olifantwater	Around the campfire, Olifantwater	The Milky Way over the Kalahari on a clear moonless night
Campfire, Namibia	End of the evening, Olifantwater	Eckhart getting the bakkie started ... luckily	Finishing the night by candlelight in the farmhouse
Crimson-breasted Gonolek (formerly Crimson-breasted Shrike) Laniarius atrococcineus	Convenient parking at Olifantwater	Stephanie trying out the Quad Bike	Anna getting a ride from a farm-hand in the donkey cart
One of Eckhart's farm hands in a donkey cart with Anna	Donkey cart, Olifantwater West	Donkey cart, Namibia	Donkey cart, Namibia
Cape Ground Squirrels and...what's that...a meerkat peeking up from a hole behind them	Cape Ground Squirrel (Xerus inauris)	Kap-Borstenhörnchen	Cape Ground Squirrel (Xerus inauris)
Meerkats (Suricata suricatta), Olifantwater	The meerkats are very shy	Meerkats peeking up from their hole, Olifantwater	Erdmännchen (Suricata suricatta)
Meerkats - so cute	Olifantwater's combined Cape Ground Squirrel and Meerkat colony	5 meercats, Olifantwater, Namibia	Meerkats, Olifantwater
The shyest of the Meerkats	The meerkat hole	Laughing Dove (Stigmatopelia senegalensis)	Farm Olifantwater West
Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill (Tockus leucomelas), Namibia	Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill (Tockus leucomelas), Namibia	Breakfast on the last morning before flying back to Windhoek	Preparing V5-FIS for the flight back to Eros
...is it going to start?