Tuesday (Day 30):

We are sitting in a little internet cafe in Swakopmund, a little coastal town on the coast of Namibia where our family often vacationed (it also happens to be the highly-publicized location where Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie brought their child into the world). We left early this morning from Windhoek on what Joe likes to call 'the Autobahn' - no cars + flat road = zoom zoom! We passed baboon, warthog, ostrich, and tons of ostrich eggs! It is so amazing how the scenery changes every 20 kilometres...lots of trees, more shrubs than trees, no trees, different color sand, and mountains that turn to dunes.
Upon arrival we drive from one Bed and Breakfast to another trying to find an open room and finally ended up at a German hotel/B&B. We have a lovely little room that overlooks a huge garden filled with poppies, snapdragons, sweet peas and loads of other beautiful blossoms.
After relaxing for a few, we took a stroll down the beach and the jetty. We enjoyed watching the seals play in and out of the water, barely 30 feet in front of us. We came across a dead seal that must have washed up on the beach, very sad. Joe marveled at it's huge fangs! Funny that these are some of the things I recall from Swakopmund...live seals, dead seals and lots of jellyfish - we saw them all!