{"id":9831,"date":"2023-10-17T17:55:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T15:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nopictures.be\/?p=9831"},"modified":"2025-10-28T11:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T10:23:06","slug":"walvis-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nopictures.be\/?p=9831","title":{"rendered":"Walvis bay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The first day during this trip we set the alarm clock, for a good reason.
We have a 08h45 rendez-vous at the Walvis Bay harbour to leave by boat and explore the bay area. Resulting in an early breakfast a quick shower, packing the sunscreen and camera bag and of we go.
No more sand storms today but a chilly and foggy morning which created an intimate atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Walvis bay yacht harbour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We were not the only ones who booked the boat trip. Together with 6 Frenchmen, who were on an organised photo safari with a professional photographer, and a family of six we boarded. Turns out that the family of six were living only kilometers away from our hometown Antwerp!
We had barely left the harbour or we were greeted by the first seals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They didn’t show up by accident. Our shipper fed them fish every day at the same time at the same spot. So they were used to it and made a great show for the tourists. One of them actually jumped on our boat to get some more fish!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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brave heart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Once further out to sea, we saw hundreds, if not thousands of seals.
During corona the population exploded to 3 million. In 2015 the government had 58000 pups killed to control the growing population. They were about 1,8 million by then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n