Sandboard Namibia

Clearly Swakopmund is a tourist town. Hotel managers, activities instructors and shop-keepers all wait for the next crop of tourists to roll in be it on overland trucks or in group tours from Germany (most likely). Tourists are ripe for the picking, too, looking for adventure and ready to embrace a new experience.  At the [...]

Cape Cross Seals and on to Swapokmund

The Cape Cross Seal Colony is a breeding reserve for the Cape fur seals who lay and play along the shore.  Seals are truly smelly, but it was fun to watch their antics: fighting, nursing, barking, swimming. 
We continued down the Skeleton Coast (named for all the shipwrecks dotting the shores).  The seas are trecherous, and [...]