This is a monitor is just finished with its mouse lunch, and this was at a snake park in Swakopmund. You can see the tongue flicking out to lick its chops.

Cape cross seal colony is a beach and board walk, here they kill seals for their furs and the precious blubber. the pups are killed by a blow to the skull then a stab to the chest.

This is a Cape Cobra spreading out its hood. The man with the stick and hook is provoking the snake causing it react.

These biscuits are a tradition of every trip to Africa.

This is everyone from Dartmouth and Wild Dogs gathered to eat dinner at the Wild Dogs garage.

 My foot print in the sand, its not much but I thought it looked cool.

The sun downers. We are enjoying a few drinks and snacks. It may look like I'm not sharing the bag of chips in my hand but really I'm just protecting them from the sandy wind. To the far left is Julian, then Steph, me, and my dad. The shadow at our feet is my mom taking the picture.

 Sunsets are beautiful, and this is no exception.

These are the Dartmouth students doing their project research.

This is a silhouette of Luca, Molly, and I sitting on the ridge of a dune. The dune seemed to catch the sunlight perfectly.

This is the side of a dune and the sun is still setting!

 The Dartmouth students are doing a project about these plants called !Nara plants. They have thorns on the branches and the fruit have a hard outer shell with bumps on them. The natives use the fruits for a dessert and beauty products.

These are the wild dogs, not actual dogs but that's the name of the safari company. Mani, Di, Paulus, and Steven. These guys were our cooks and drivers for our trip and were with the students before we got there.

Almost to the top. This picture captures the beauty the sand dunes have in the late sun. We aren't that far from the top but the adults were slowing down and we stopped on a ridge facing the rest of the sand sea. 

This is a picture of Luca ( age 7), Molly (age 5), dad, and I climbing up the dunes. Dad got tired and had to sit and not surprisingly Molly and Luca have so much energy it seemed like the could run up. Since the sand was very steep you had to literally crawl up.

This sand dune is from Gobabeb in the sand sea. I think these sand dunes are in parts of lion king when simba is running back to pride rock. The hikes up these dunes actually take up a large amount of energy because the sand makes small avalanches!