The Skeleton Coast in northern Namibia is home to thousands of Cape Fur Seals, a golden sea of endless dunes and a treacherous coastline with crumbling shipwrecks and ghostly fog.
- Remote and wild region
- Huge seal colony at Cape Cross
- Unique ecosystem
- Desert-adapted fauna & flora
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Skeleton Coast travel info The Skeleton Coast Park, which covers more than a million and a half hectares, is a strange landscape of fog-bound coast, gravel plains and mirages. Its singular, eerie atmosphere is compounded by shipwrecks and abandoned mines. The Skeleton coast is infamous for its treacherous sand banks to which many ships have fallen prey - hence the name Skeleton Coast.
The appeal of the Skeleton Coast lies essentially in the colour, vastness, changing moods and untouched quality of its landscape and its diversity of desert-adapted plants, animals and birds. Its relentlessly stark beauty is highlighted by unexpected waterholes where a surprising number and variety of hardy desert animals gather.
The southern section of the park is more accessible to visitors than the northern area or wilderness section of the park. Terrace Bay and Torra Bay are two fishing resorts in the area. The Skeleton Coast Park Wilderness Area stretches from north of the Hoanib River up to the Kunene River. Fly-in safaris are the only means of visiting this section of the Skeleton Coast Park.
Cape Cross is a breeding area for between 80,000 and 100,000 of the Cape Fur Seals and is thus known to be the biggest and best of the seal colonies along this coastline. The Cape Cross Seal Reserve is located 53 kilometres north of Henties Bay and 120 kilometres north of Swakopmund.
Seasons
Oct-May sees clear, sunny and warm days, where as coastal fog sets in during the winter months between Jun-Sep.
The best time to visit the Cape Cross Seal Colony is during the breeding season between Nov-Dec.
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