At 8 am my family and I left the hotel to go on a living desert safari, the drive to the desert was short and after a short wait for the main guide for the trip Colin, we headed into the desert stopping by a patch of sand we climbed out of the jeeps and gathered round Colin he began to draw a map of Africa and especial Namibia , he went on to explain how the dunes were formed, now I could go into this process on here but it would take some time so here this sums it up nicely: http://www.namibiansun.com/content/agri/sand-dunes-namib-fascinating-dynamic-and-ever-changing

After being educated about the formation of the dunes we walked off to were a sprinkling of sand was around a small hole on the dune a Gecko hole!

Colin began to dig and soon enough he found the gecko, in fact it was a Palmato gecko, I will admit I awed when I saw it. (manliness points lost)

He explained that it was nocturnal and ate small insects it was extremely sensitive to sunlight (its skin in translucent).

After another short drive in the jeeps near desert scrub we went in search of more creatures about 5 minutes into the search someone shouted snake and Colin began running over saying stay back. This was for good reason as the snake that had been found was a Horned adder which has no anti-venom.

After showing its warning puff noise (its related to the puff adder), Colin tried to get it to move and it slowly slithered, after taking many photos we left it in peace and shortly travelled on again.

 

Reaching the side of a dune with a very unusual squiggle on the side to twisty for a snake track, Colin immediately dug up one end of this squiggle and soon he had lizard, this is no ordinary lizard those family with a slow worm will know what I mean. The lizard is known as a Lance skink, once Colin replaced it on dry sand it quickly contorted and vanished into the sand.

Our final find was the Namaqua chameleon, the same sort id previously seen at the ghost town, I also found a dead one in the area too it looked fresh and rather grim. The males of this species have a yellow underside to their heads whereas the females have a red one. Colin went on to explain that their tongues could get as long as their bodies, eating each other small snakes and insects.

The tour concludes with a drink by a dune which we scaled it was fun.