This is an amazing landscape. We are starting to see more wildlife in the desert and have spotted quite a few ostrich and different types of antelope including eland and springbok. There are a few private game reserves along the long straight road where they have some of the bigger critters so we have kept a close look out for anything more exciting.
The Giants Playground is a big area with boulders stacked on top of boulders as though giants have been rearranging the landscape – hmm I wonder if that’s why it’s called that? Before we got there however we stopped at the office for the park where the owners have raised two cheetahs from birth. While they come to an enclosure to get fed each day, they then roam and live freely in the paddocks/desert adjacent. So while not totally a wild cheetah sighting pretty awesome to see them wandering around so close!
Next stop Quiver Tree Forest. Quiver trees were made to make quivers for the San bushman’s arrows which were dipped in a poisonous sap from another of the local shrubs. Lucky they were called quiver trees so they knew what to use these trees for… Regardless they are amazing looking trees – very light wood that grow around the rocks if they need to.
