Desert to Sea

We had quite a transition today. The day started with an early morning hike up a boulder strewn canyon in the Brandberg mountains. The goal was to see the famous rock painting called "The White Lady". It's not really a white lady, just a misinterpretation by an early archeologist. The painting is about 2000 years old. From the mountain, we crossed the desert and wound up on the shore of the Atlantic ocean at the lower end of the Skeleton Coast. There, we visited the Cape Cross Seal Colony. A smelly aggregation of thousands of fur seals. Late in the afternoon we arrived in Swakopmund, a seaside town, where we will spend a couple days.

In the Brandberg mountains on the way to see the rock paintings we saw a boulder that looks like a Baboon head


The White Lady (not really a lady, and not white either)


Cape Cross Seal Colony. A seal for every rock.


A nice spot for warming up in the sun.


Real Estate squabbles are frequent.