The Ocean Meets the Dunes in Sandwich Harbour
I got up this morning and they served my breakfast right on my front porch, it was great. It was also great to see both my car and the guy outside guarding it in fairly good condition. This has been a very, very full trip and I have a very, very long journey home tomorrow. I originally considered heading up the Skeleton Coast to see the shipwrecks, however it turned out to be further than I thought so I took a more relaxing tour down to Sandwich Harbour. This is where the dunes meet the sea and there is only a limited window to get in and out due to the tides. Some flamingos as we headed out of town.
The dunes appeared in the distance. While not as impressive as Sossusvlei they were still pretty cool being right on the ocean.
While my guide was nice he did not care for black people, which you might find strange as we were in Africa. However, Namibia and South Africa are not only geographically close but their people and economy are also tied to each other. My guide reminisced about the good ole days of the apartheid when a white person could still find work in South Africa. He claimed he had to come to Namibia in order to be hired as a white person. While there might be a grain of truth buried in there someplace I’m pretty sure I saw white people working while in South Africa. I found the grains of sand more interesting.
And they were right, the ocean comes right up to the base of the dunes.
There was an older couple in the vehicle with me and while they took pictures of the birds I headed up one of the dunes.
Beautiful views, nothing but ocean on one side.
And sand dunes on the other side.
We were over staying our welcome and had to make a mad dash in order to get out before the tide came in and trapped us until the evening.
It was a nice relaxing end to the tour part of my trip and I kicked back with a beer at the guesthouse before turning in very, very early as I would be getting up very, very early.
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