Making a bit of a splash!!!

Well eventually I am back in Africa, and decided to make a bit a of a SPLASH at Kolmanskop's olympic size swimming pool in southern Namibia! ; ) Went on a road trip to Namibia and our fist tourist attraction was Kolmanskop. An amazing place with an incredible history!

The saltwater olympic size swimming pool constructed of concrete located on the hill.

And of course there would be a diving board for all those back & forward somersaults! ; )

Beautiful steel ladders going in & out of the pool.

Here is Kolmanskop Champagne was the same price as freshwater and it was always accompanied with caviar! Every house received a crate of lemonade & water as well as a huge block of ice every week. And there was a train that collected the ladies to go shopping, even though the town only consisted out of three rows of buildings! Agh those were the times hey! ; )

I snuck away...

...to Namibia for the week! Ag and lost my heart on the desert again! Windhoek is the capital (and I worked there for about five years) but the rest of Namibia is just AWESOME! The landscape, the desert, the coast - really great!

Alongside the road just outside Swakopmund.

Die Mole in Swakopmund.ME at die Mole.

View of the desert form the jetty in Swakopmund.

The road back to Windhoek...

The best sundowners are to be had at Okapuka - approx. 30km outside Windhoek.

probeer is die beste geweer...

I took these photographs earlier this year when on holiday in Namibia. We were on our way from Windhoek to Sossusvlei when we came across this sign, literally in the middle of nowhere. For those who don't understand Afrikaans - the sign (directly translated) says: "TRY".
The letters are 3-dimensional and not just flat sheets. The colour is due to the rust on the metal. I am assuming that this was done by a farmer with a sense of humour in this amazing landscape. We had to came to a screeching holt when we saw it and had to back-up to take the pics. I just thought it was an awesome installation!