17th August Palmwag

17th Aug. Palmwag, Damaraland.
Max and Moira left us at Purros, they have limited time and like traveling faster than us, it was great traveling with them but a bit hard on the vehicle keeping up with them. By this time our supplies were running low and we didn’t realize there would be no shops to speak of since leaving Ondangwa on the 8th. We then looked at the map and realized we still had some 400kms to go before the next supermarket. Still, you cope; fruit juice on muesli and jatz biscuits instead of bread went off alright.
This area is amazing, it isn’t a national park but the animals are still all around you. At Purros we saw the elephants, ostrich, baboons, grey mongoose, as well as some interesting birds, here on the way to Palmwag we saw more elephant, mountain zebra, giraffe, greater kudu, and hundreds of springbok from the road we were on. Quite amusing really: leaving Purros we saw a group of 7-8 ostriches some 200 metres from us, I stopped to take a photo then drove off. They began to run towards the bakkie but on an angle, I was doing 55kph when they easily crossed the road in front of us. They must have been doing a good 60kph. The same with a lone dimunitive springbok we startled feeding close to the road. Instead of taking off in another direction he ran flat out along side us for some 200 metres. I was doing 70kph and he was keeping up with us with ease.