JBL Expedition 2015 – Day 11: Offroad on the Sand Track to the Lizards

Oh, it’s been ages since we slept so well. The clear outdoor air was balm for our soul. In the morning we stoked the fire again to cook, make toast and prepare scrambled eggs. We managed everything without electricity, except battery and smartphone recharging. This is where all the extra batteries paid off.

After breakfast we continued by truck. First stop in the middle of nowhere. And at last, early in the morning, we found lizards! After we had explored our surroundings a little, our driver switched our truck to four-wheel-drive and thundered full bore at 90 km/h over the sand track which was better suited to a walking speed. On arrival, after “hopping” along at 180 km, we were amazed that our trailer was still behind the bus.

At Ormiston Gorge we found further lizards and even an extremely beautiful monitor lizard. It was too warm even for him and he shrank back into the shade. In the meantime the humidity had dropped down to below 20 %, making the 40 °C easily bearable. In the waterhole at Ormiston Gorge we saw rainbow fish, gobies and cichlids. Catching animals is forbidden, so we had to limit our activities to taking pictures and recording videos under water. Generally quite a lot is forbidden in the national park. The parks are there for nature protection and not to entertain people. This we accepted, of course.

The bird lovers amongst us also got their money’s worth. At last the first parakeets! A loud pink cockatoo even joined us in the camp in the evening. Before going to sleep we had a nocternal prowl and came across a lot of ant holes. Thijl showed us a dehydrated snake, which looked like a metallic bracelet – probably a victim of the heat.

© 22.10.2015
Matthias Wiesensee
Matthias Wiesensee
M.Sc. Wirtschaftsinformatik

Social Media, Online Marketing, Homepage, Kundenservice, Problemlöser, Fotografie, Blogger, Tauchen, Inlineskating, Aquaristik, Gartenteich, Reisen, Technik, Elektronische Musik

About me: Seit Teenagerzeiten mit Aquarien in Kontakt. Klassische Fischaquarien, reine Pflanzenaquarien bis hin zum Aquascape. Aber auch ein Gartenteich und Riffaquarien begleiten mich privat im Hobby. Als Wirtschaftsinformatiker, M.Sc. bin ich als Online Marketing Manager bei JBL für die Bereiche Social Media, Webentwicklung und der Kommunikation mit dem Anwender der JBL Produkte zuständig und kenne die JBL Produkte im Detail.

Comments

A word about cookies before we continue

The JBL Homepage also uses several types of cookies to provide you with full functionality and many services: We require technical and functional cookies to ensure that everything works when you visit this website. We also use cookies for marketing purposes. This ensures that we recognise you when you visit our extensive site again, that we can measure the success of our campaigns and that the personalisation cookies allow us to address you individually and directly, adapted to your needs - even outside our website. You can determine at any time - even at a later date - which cookies you allow and which you do not allow (more on this under "Change settings").

The JBL website uses several types of cookies to provide you with full functionality and many services: Technical and functional cookies are absolutely necessary so that everything works when you visit this website. In addition, we use cookies for marketing purposes. You can determine at any time - even at a later date - which cookies you allow and which you do not (more on this under "Change settings").

Our data protection declaration tells you how we process personal data and what purposes we use the data processing for. tells you how we process personal data and what purposes we use the data processing for. Please confirm the use of all cookies by clicking "Accept" - and you're on your way.

Are you over 16 years old? Then confirm the use of all cookies with "Noticed" and you are ready to go.

Choose your cookie settings

Technical and functional cookies, so that everything works when you visit our website.
Marketing cookies, so that we recognize you on our pages and can measure the success of our campaigns.
I accept the YouTube Terms of Service and confirm that I have read and understood the YouTube Terms of Service .

PUSH messages from JBL

What are PUSH messages? As part of the W3C standard, web notifications define an API for end-user notifications that are sent to the user's desktop and/or mobile devices via the browser. Notifications appear on the end devices as they are familiar to the end user from apps installed on the device (e.g. emails). Notifications appear on the end user’s device, just like an app (e.g. for emails) installed on the device.

These notifications enable a website operator to contact its users whenever they have a browser open - it doesn’t matter whether the user is currently visiting the website or not.

To be able to send web push notifications, all you need is a website with a web push code installed. This allows brands without apps to take advantage of many of the benefits of push notifications (personalised real-time communications at just the right moment).

Web notifications are part of the W3C standard and define an API for end user notifications. A notification makes it possible to inform the user about an event, such as a new blog post, outside the context of a website.

JBL GmbH & Co. KG provides this service free of charge, and it is easy to activate or deactivate.