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We next drove from Sossusvlei in the south of the Namib-Naukluft National Park to Swakopmund. The route took us first east, then north, then west to the Atlantic coast.
Swakopmund was founded back in 1892 when Namibia was a German colony. The town has a fair amount of German colonial architecture and I heard several German speaking tourists walking around the town. The next morning we drove a short distance down the coast to Walvis Bay for a boat tour.
The bay is home to a large population of Cape fur seals. They haul out on a sandbar called Pelican Point that separates the Atlantic Ocean from the bay. The sandbar goes on for many kilometers. There is a lighthouse but it is not at the end of the sandbar. When it was built in 1932 it was. But over the subsequent decades sand has blown in from the desert inland and now the end of the peninsula is several kilometers further.
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