Norotshama Lodge is on the Orange River that forms the border between South
Africa and the southern border of Namibia. There are hundreds of acres of
vines that are drip irrigated from the river as there is negligible rain in
this lunar landscape and rocky desert. As you leave the town and hit the
dirt road, you see a bizarre collection of thousands of bamboo huts that
appear to have no inhabitants. These are apparently for the 15,000 migrant
workers that show up here for the picking season to work on the farms.

These boys are in Rosh Pinah, a diamond mining town in the far southwest of
Namibia. This whole corner of the country is completely off limits to
visitors and is essentially controlled by a single industry and a revenue
sharing deal between DeBeers and the Namibian Government. Just crossing the
border area on the dirt road along the river put us into a police
checkpoint that insisted on logging every vehicle and every person who
passed.

As we rolled up the main road towards Aus, our final destination for the
day, we saw all kinds of wildlife including Ostrich and these Springboks.