#41 in this series showed a sand dune “eating” forest in Australia’s southwestern “corner”, a few kilometres from the Indian Ocean,.
This chapter sees a shipwreck being devoured by the Namib Desert, adjacent to the Atlantic coast of Southern Africa.
Above and below, you are looking at what remains of the Eduard Bohlen.
On 05 September 2009 this German ship was wrecked, in a thick fog at Conception Bay in what was then German Southwest Africa, now the Republic of Namibia.
The wreck is now circa half a kilometre in from the Atlantic Ocean, and is in the process of “disappearing” beneath the Namib Desert’s sands.
Click here for an illustrated, “full story” of Africa’s most oft-photographed shipwreck.
This location is often, incorrectly, described as being on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.
The Skelton Coast runs north from Swakopmund to the Angolan border
The Eduard Bohlen is some distance south of Walvis Bay, which itself is south of Swakopmund.
(Walvis Bay is Namibia’s second largest city and its only deep water port. Swakopmund – just 30 minutes north of Walvis Bay – is Namibia’s third largest city, and its major “coastal resort”)
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