On a dark desert highway…

Well to be a bit more exact it wasn’t actually dark and it wasn’t so much a highway, but it was the C14 desert highway road from Walvis Bay through the Namib-Naukluft Park which is desert!

When we both think of the desert we think of sand and lots of it. Without any doubt we did get that on this road, but there was so much more. From the golden sandy dunes and grey moon landscape through brown, rocky outcrops and up and down steep dry gorges to vibrant burnt orange sand dunes edged with mouldy green and musty yellow meadows of tussock, the stark contrast of colours was amazing. It was a really mesmorising drive in the heat of the day on a fairly well maintained desert road. And who thought deserts were just full of sand???

It was funny to read the headline news written on the blackboard when we arrived at the petrol station at Solitaire – NZ to host 2011 Rugby World Cup. We hope that this time the NZ RFU will manage the ticket prices in a way that will get Kiwis to go to the games, unlike the recent Lions games where many of the provincial games were far from a sell out.