From fauna to flora

Strictly speaking we were here to track animals not the plants but while Namibia, particularly in the south, has few tall trees, when you find them they stand out like beacons, and more often than not, like elderly inhabitants bowing to the sky. In the absence of a dendrologist I have to assume, with the help of the internet, that the tall, smooth barked one, is a moringa ovalifolia. They occasionally shoot upwards out of the sedimemtary rock, screaming for life with wrinkled knuckles and knobbly elbows. 

The second tree I have assumed is Eucalyptus, which we found almost disguised among the fallen boulders of a rocky valley, but huge and majestic with tentacled roots reaching down into the dry gravel. This particular tree drew our attention as we heard buzzing from a small cave behind it. For a moment we were intrigued but then realised it could well be the remains of a leopard meal. A little further long was one of our next GPS locations.