Friday 23rd November
After a nice cooked breakfast we set off about 8.30 for the drive to Swakopmund via Walvis Bay. The landscape changed quite a lot, some small “mountain passes”, wide open plains and finally the desert landscape again where the sand dunes hit the Atlantic Ocean. The road from Walvis Bay to Swakopmund is called the Kalahari Highway, it has the sandy desert one side of the road and the sea on the other. Walvis Bay is the main port of Namibia through which just about everything arrives. Just to the south of the town is the Lagoon with its huge numbers of flamingos and other sea birds. Arrived at Swakopmund about 3 ish. It’s a lot cooler here and at time of writing we are wearing extra clothing and waterproofs, and we are in the tropics, quite bizarre.
