Another Atypical Day

looking back to November 2016:

Weird things happen everywhere we go, right?  And some days just get a bit weirder.  There was nothing exceptionally weird about the 19th of November in 2016 in Swakopmund, but the number of interesting things I saw in the span of a few hours was... unusual.  And however often one sees men dressed as fairies in Boston and etc., in Swakop it's about a million kilometers from the norm.  (There was a gorgeous, small, slender, darkish-skinned man who dressed as Tinkerbell in Boston in the mid-80s and pinned condoms to the reeds where a lot of casual sexual contact occurred, as people were just starting to become terrified by AIDS, but still resisted safer sex practices.)

As I type this up in May, there are no flamingos at the Swakop lagoon.
Plenty in Walvis Bay.  But I need them in Swakop.  Note camels in background.

I love them so.  The colors, the grace, the very weird profile in flight.

They may actually be dromedaries.  These Namibian tourists are braver than I.

Camels, and probably dromedaries, bite and spit.

No idea what the story is on this guy, who was with several friends.

I saw him again, hours later, at the fancy hotel on the other end of the beach.

I see more dead seals than live, especially right up on the sand like this.

Pelicans are more at home in Walvis, but today there was one on the aquarium.

Fun!