Today’s chapter in this series’ “wet sands” section features a fast-scuttling crab, on a northern Namibian beach,
Here, rain hardly ever falls, but fogs often roll in from the cold Atlantic Ocean, and thence into the western section of the Namib Desert.
Q: a terrible place to be shipwrecked?
A: yes…but this shoreline is far from “lifeless”.
The waters that lap it teem with life; human population density is among the lowest on “our” planet, but the local seafood is abundant and excellent.
The Skeleton Coast is one of the world’s great “marine graveyards”.
More than a few “survivors” from its many shipwrecks soon became “fatalities”, for want of food, fresh water…and rescue.
Its name, however, is not about “doomed” ships and sailors; the “Skeleton Coast” is so-called because so many whales’ bones are visible on its beaches.
(photo ©️ Doug Spencer, taken at 6.07 pm on 15 November 2022, just south of the mouth of the [ephemeral] Hoarusib River)
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