Gobabeb 2006
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The Desert Brings Peace
Tomorrow I will head back to the Gobabeb Research Facility for a conference on renewable energy sources organized by the Polytechnic of Namibia and the Gerter Institute of Namibia. I was last at Gobabeb for the Rotary International meeting in March of this year. I really enjoy going to the desert. It is so quiet […]
Gobabeb Research Centre
Journey to the Gobabeb Research Centre I took Friday off from work so that I could travel with colleagues to the Gobabeb Research Centre in the middle of the Namib-Naucluft. The Namib desert is considered to be the oldest desert in the world, having endured arid or semi-arid conditions for at least 80 million years. […]
Satellite image of the Namib Desert
This is a satellite image of the fabulous Namib Desert as seen through Google Maps. You have seen my ground level shots as I climbed dune 7 but this really shows how much sand has pooled here. Google Maps has recently expanded its online offering to include all views once available only via the download’able […]