SWA, Jose and Teresa, early 80's	Jose and Teresa at Hoba Meteorite, good acoustics, early 80's	Hoba Meteorite, old picture	1980, SWA Jose and Teresa at Walvisbaai, early 80's
SWA Jose and Teresa to Swakopmund, early 80's	Schiphol to Windhoek	1896, lake in arid Southern Africa	Joburg by air
1986, Jan Smuts airport	1986, KLM via Nairobi to Jan Smuts airport	Windhoek SWA suburb	downtown Windhoek, 1986
Windhoek Kudu statue	Windhoek, left hand drive	1986, Windhoek shopping center	VW from air cooling to heating up
Windhoek Lutheran Church	Windhoek, Kaiser Bill (defeated by the South Africans in 1915)	Windhoek, Kaiser Wilhelm II	Windhoek, Kaiser Wilhelm II
Windhoek	Windhoek Parliament buildings 1986	Windhoek Kalahari Sands hotel	Windhoek, house Manuel
700 km due north	Aloe in flower	fine roads and landscapes	1987, S. von Bach dam & lake
promising skies	dry hills	golden grasses	flatlands
Otjivarongo	Otjivarongo	Otjivarongo	Otjivarongo
94 to Grootfontein	distant rains	Magadadi palms of SWA	Windhoek road, 62 from Otavi
Farm land	Omataku mountains	the elusive rains of Africa	a short walk or a long one
Grootfontein entrance	African flame trees	Grootfontein Stadtverwaltung	1986, Checkpoint to stop Swapo terrorists
termite hill	bottomless lake Ochikoto	looking for sunken WW1 material	guardians of the deep
Welkom in Tsumeb	Tsumeb church	Tsumeb mining facility	Tsumeb Herero's at Co-op
Tsumeb greened with mining water	looking for Swapo: those on the left please stop read about the Soviet insurgency from Angola	land mine, or asleep at the wheel?	Kavango native villages
Kavango weaver nests	weaver bird	Grandpa's tree	Sunflowers near Grootfontein
even here (1987)	roadside village	creative colors	African craftmanship
an Ovambo 747, ready for takeoff	1987, Hoba meteorite, dropped on or by a mining town?	Hoba contains 97% iron	Jose and Teresa's abode in Grootfontein
Grootfontein early 80's	Portuguese church Grootfontein early 80's	Portuguese church Grootfontein early 80's	Kavango river, looking at Calai in Angola
Rundu, home on the Wildebeestlaan	Christmas 1986 in Rundu	African church	African church, early 1980s
SWA Rundu Waterwese 1980's	Rundu sportsday 1980s	Rundu Rugby match 1980's	beluister "Uit die blou van onse hemel"
1987: the 'besoekers' are losing in SWA	Banking on Toyota	a tall order	Namibia 1986/87, land of plenty
Kavango Pharmacy 1980's	SWA Rundu Hospital	1987, Well designed Koevoet read about the Soviet insurgency from Angola	Grandma baking cakes
Brunido, retired Benguela railway engineer from Angola	Brunido family with Ozzie	African hunters Orlando, Osvaldo & Jeannette	Grandpa's Christmas day birthday
fine dining in the bush	Orlando Roque and family	Christmas piglet staying warm	Christmas piglet joining the table
A man and his dog	Vungu-Vungu Melkerij	white man's diary cattle	African beef cattle
have bow & arrows, will travel	African village	African goats	African mealies
Kavango Kaisosie church	Kaisosie church	Kaisosie church	Kavango river baptism
Kavango river baptism	1986, Kavango river life	Kavango river bands of color	Kavango river laundry day
more colors	teak trees at nightfall	Kavango Kingfisher	South Aricans boating on the Kavango
Angola beloved	Christmas in Rundu	Caprivi immer gerade aus nach Osten	Caprivi trip, 500km east to Katima
east to Katima, south to Botswana	Caprivi fuel station	Caprivi 1980's dirt roads	Caprivi road to progress
251km to Katima	1987, Caprivi, wild elephant	Caprivi, Quando river	Caprivi at 45'C in the shade
stop following us	Road to nowhere (Katima)	Egrets	Caprivi snake bird
another kind of fuel	the great Zambezi	Caprivi, Katima house	Caprivi, Katima golf club
trying to drown out the hippo belches	wailing all night across the Zambezi: a child eaten by crocs	unaware of lurking dangers	1987, border patrol between SWA/Zambia/Zimbabwe
pet crocodiles	Katima, at cousin Esmeralda's house	modern amenities in the heart of Africa	SAAF city
1987, Katima, cousin Esmeralda	Bagani Falls, before the delta	Bagani falls, Okavango river's last stand	Caprivi, Chingue village
1987, Caprivi, at Umbukushu, Erasmus family	Caprivi, steenbok	Caprivi, Baobab 'upside-down' tree	1987 Etosha Wildtuin, one of the oldest parks in the world
Ostrich	Trap	Etosha bull elephant	a certain curve of horn
the famed unicorn	Namibia identity: Black with white stripes, or white with black?	gazelles	jackal finishing off a bully elephant
giraffe in Etosha salt pan	wildebeest	hartebeest	juffer cranes
Nein, nein, I say 'all togezzer'!	Lion' in wait	the desert bites, sticks, or stings	Dankie

More online background reading on South West Africa

Report: 'Expedition to Ovampoland', Ch7, P79, 1850, Francis Galton

Report: 'Narrative of an Explorer in South Africa' (includes 'visit to Damaraland in 1851'), 1890, by Francis Galton