It was amazing to watch the giraffes and the way their tongues maneuvered around the acacia thorns to eat the blossoms.

The zebras often laid their heads on each other it was sweet and made for great pictures.

Here are some elephants coming in to drink at a water hole.  One of the neatest things I learned and was able to observe was the hierarchy that exists among all the animal species, especially at water holes.  The elephants are definitely in charge, they're the real kings.

The diversity of animal species at the water holes was quite varied.  Here is a photo with elephants, ostriches, zebras and oryx represented.  I was surprised at how freely they mingled, at one hole we saw eight different species all together.  How cool!

We visited a fur seal colony on the Skeleton Coast near Swakopmund.  It was remarkable to see so many seals together but they smelled VERY bad!  It was also very comical because they make a sound that sounds like bleating sheep.  So essentially it was like seeing a herd of thousands of smelly aquatic sheep, cool!!  This was one of our favorites because it was very asleep with a flipper sticking straight in the air, none of the others slept this way.