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Namibia – Bushcraft with the Bushmen

By Pablo | Posted in craft, cultural, fire, Namibia, shelter, survival
December 2nd, 2009
It’s quite amusing that we are always trying to define bushcraft. I’ve always had a simple explanation and it’s been confirmed by this experience. It’s simply building, making or crafting things out of natural materials in order to be comfortable in the outdoors (the bush). It’s as simple as that. In the UK and possibly Europe... Read More

Namibia – The Ju/’hoansi Bushmen

By Pablo | Posted in cultural, Namibia
November 29th, 2009
“Pity Southern Africa’s first people. Pity the people with no name. For when you are the only ones, you have no need to distinguish your kind from others…” So begins an article on the Bushmen by Peter Godwin for National Geographic magazine written in 2000. ‘Bushman’ isn’t a derogatory name but ‘San’ may... Read More

Namibia – The Wildlife

By Pablo | Posted in birds, mammals, Namibia
November 25th, 2009
It was hard to believe that this was in fact Southern Africa. It wasn’t Longleat or Marwell Safari or Zoological Parks. What I was seeing were free-roaming animals in their native environment. A dream of mine since I was a kid. Of course in some cases they weren’t going to be easy to spot, and in some cases they would be too far away. In one case I... Read More

Namibia 2009 – The Journey and Logistics

By Pablo | Posted in Namibia
November 22nd, 2009
In this post I’ll provide an overview of the whole journey. We all met for the first time at Windhoek airport and waited for the light aircraft pilots to take us on to Hobatere. The high winds and the vision of the old Cessna 210’s didn’t do much for the confidence and during the flight the pilot decided he would reduce height to 5,000 feet to save... Read More

Back from Namibia

By Pablo | Posted in Namibia
November 20th, 2009
I’m back! I’ve unpacked, cleaned my kit and had a good sleep. Here’s a complete random selection of some of the 1,000 photos and 2 hours of video footage. I’ll add some words next week. Thanks for the... Read More

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