National Geographic: Flight Over Africa Page #2
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pilot told Claytor
about an isolated shipwreck
on the Namiban Beach.
One of the many
skeletons along
Africa's infamous
Skeleton Coast.
Claytor is looking for a
South African
freighter called the Otavi
which sank in 1945.
A mere footnote
in history,
the wreck is said to be
extremely well preserved
thanks to the tiny cove
where it went aground.
Just beyond this swept
area and that beach,
there's a rock peninsula
and one beyond it.
You'll see in between
the two is the shipwreck.
Right here the ocean is
just moving back off the Otavi.
around that wreck.
You can see the wreck
jetting up out of the sand.
And part of it's
been split off.
And those are seals
they're just packed all around it.
May 15th.
I am on the edge
of one of the oldest
deserts in the world.
The skeleton coast
where countless
shipwrecked sailors
lost their lives.
It feels like a place
Like a ghost, the Otavi
looms before me
rising three decks
above the sand,
something almost
lost and forgotten.
I try to imagine the men
who wrecked here
half a century ago.
How did it feel to be
marooned in such a place?
The wreck of the Otavi
is so inaccessible that
Claytor is probably the
lonely vessel's
first visitor in decades.
His book promises to be
a guided tour
of the middle of nowhere.
May 16th
Today is the 894th day
since I left home.
Sometimes I worry
that I will become
to comfortable
being alone. Already,
I can't imagine
what it would be like to be
in a room full of people.
I miss the most unbelievably
trivial things.
A bookstore.
A movie.
A long hot shower.
A pillow.
The only sound I hear
is a hyena in the distance.
But I relish the quite...
the solitude.
May 17th. I wake up
at dawn and it's freezing.
break down camp.
And then, almost as though
it were a part of myself
I see to the plane.
What I'm doing.
But of course
I check everything
and the I check it again.
Three pilots I met
in the Faroe Islands
were recently killed
when their helicopter crashed.
That makes 15 pilots...
since I started flying.
There's so much of flying
that's completely
out of your control.
So I try to concentrate
on what I can control.
Despite the dangers
and perhaps also
because of them
Claytor loves to fly
The whole world
goes upside down.
And yet everything inside
the airplane stays the same. Kinda fun.
If you do it wrong
you can really get
into a lot of trouble.
yourself if you do it too fast
or too slow
or you stall the tail
hour heart drops...
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