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I've been doing Steph's stuff (as she's off the net for a bit). The 2006 
African Championship will culminate on Wednesday with a 160km race in Walvis 
Bay (Walvisbaai) Namibia. It's a seacoast town. Surrounded by primal desert. I 
put a google earth placemark on the equestrian center. You have to have 
installed the free version of google earth to have it work. It's worth the 
effort to install if you haven't yet. (I'm also making up a google earth tour 
of the endurance sites around the world with as many gps trails as I can .... 
later:)

But Walvisbaai itself is pretty interesting: "... Although Walvis Bay had 
already been discovered by Diaz as early as 1487, it was only founded in 1793 
by the Cape Dutch. Two years later it was annexed by the British. In 1910, 
Walvis Bay became - like the entire Cape Colony - part of the South African 
Union. After Namibia's independence, the only deep sea harbour on the Namibian 
coast remained under South African rule and only in 1994, did the former South 
African president F.W. de Klerk agree to return it to Namibia. ... "

This will be the first 160km ride held in Namibia. It will be the First Young 
Riders event. It is the last leg of the 2006 African Championship, and it will 
be the 2006 Namibian National Championship event. 

The 160km race starts at 2:00am -- the loops run up and down the beach and 
straight back into the dessert. 

pretty interesting looking - especially the beach riding. looks like Pinamar:)

jt


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