Here I am. Cape Cross. There is no one here. Almost literally. One bar on the phone. No wifi. There are more seals and seabirds than humans here. My lodging has 20 rooms. 3 are booked tonight.
Beautiful though is the landscape. It’s in some ways other-worldly. One one side of me the ocean. Blue as the Carribean. Waves as high as Hawaii. On the other side of me, salt pans and rocky mountains the color of rust.
Went to the Cape Cross seal colony today. It was out of this world amazing. Tens of thousands of seals. As it is pup season – a ton of small pups. Seals lounging on rock outcroppings, fighting, swimming. Maybe 3 other cars here.
The drive was 2 hours from Walvis. Busy until Swakopmund – a tourist beach town if there ever was one (which is why I stayed in Walvis Bay – an actual working port town). But north of Swako and especially Henties Bay as the road turned to packed salt there were very long stretches where I saw no other cars.
Salt pan’s on the left. Rocky desert on the right. Driving on the left with blind rises, steep drop offs on the side and more roadside memorials to the dead than I care to think about.
It’s amazing being in a place with no TV, no phones, no wireless and 1.5 hours from the next city of any size.
Time to think. To contemplate ones existence. To write.
Turns out I won’t have any real access to cell/wifi until I reach Vic Falls – almost two weeks from now. Until then, I’ll be writing in my journal – ready to share here when the time comes. I’ll be taking photos. And, I’ll be enjoying everything that travelling in this part of the world throws my way.
The Kahn Man 