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https://www.europesays.com/africa/207798/ U.S. Naval Forces Africa Visits Namibia, Meets with U.S. Ambassador, Defense Officials #AmbassadorJohnGiordano #Namibia #USAmbassadorJohnGiordano #USNavalForcesAfrica(NAVAF) #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Walvisbay #windhoek
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/169099/ Walvis Bay and the New Geography of Power #CapeOfGoodHope #China #Namibia #PanamaCanal #StraitOfHormuz #SuezCanal #UnitedStates #WalvisBay
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/168520/ Walvis Bay and the New Geography of Power #CapeOfGoodHope #China #Namibia #PanamaCanal #StraitOfHormuz #SuezCanal #UnitedStates #WalvisBay
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/128337/ British wildlife expert killed in plane crash in Namibian desert #AlanWilson #BritishWildlife #CrashedAircraft #GobabebResearchStation #LightAircraft #NamibDesert #Namibia #NeilOakman #ProfAlanWilson #ProfWilson #RoyalVeterinaryCollege #WalvisBay
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Walvis Bay in Namibië is een kustplaats waar je geweldige excursies kunt maken, zoals een boottocht in de lagune of een living desert tour in de woestijn. Zo kun je op weg naar de woestijn een groep flamingo’s spotten. Wil je meer weten over Walvis Bay, lees dan dit artikel. 👇
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Walvis Bay in Namibië is een kustplaats waar je geweldige excursies kunt maken, zoals een boottocht in de lagune of een living desert tour in de woestijn. Zo kun je op weg naar de woestijn een groep flamingo’s spotten. Wil je meer weten over Walvis Bay, lees dan dit artikel. 👇
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Walvis Bay in Namibië is een kustplaats waar je geweldige excursies kunt maken, zoals een boottocht in de lagune of een living desert tour in de woestijn. Zo kun je op weg naar de woestijn een groep flamingo’s spotten. Wil je meer weten over Walvis Bay, lees dan dit artikel. 👇
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/84752/ Instagram #AmbassadorGiordano #AmericanBusinesses #AmericanTechnology #BakerHughesEnergyTechnology #CriticalMinerals #EconomicDevelopment #EconomicGrowth #EnergyCooperation #EnergyLandscape #EnergySector #EnergySecurity #EnergyTechnology #ForeignInvestment #GlobalEnergy #IndustrialGrowth #innovation #InvestmentOpportunities #JoshuaVolz #MikeKopp #Namibia #Namibia'sEnergySector #OrangeBasin #RegionalEnergy #StrategicPlayer #USAmbassador #USDepartmentOfEnergy #WalvisBay
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/?p=66733 Walvis Bay | Port, Harbor, Lagoon, & Map #article #britannica #encyclopeadia #encyclopedia #Namibia #WalvisBay
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Walvis Bay in Namibië is een kustplaats waar je geweldige excursies kunt maken, zoals een boottocht in de lagune of een living desert tour in de woestijn. Zo kun je op weg naar de woestijn een groep flamingo’s spotten. Het centrum van Walvis Bay vond ik tegenvallen maar de omgeving is schitterend. Wil je meer weten over Walvis Bay, lees dan dit artikel. 👇
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Walvis Bay in Namibië is een kustplaats waar je geweldige excursies kunt maken, zoals een boottocht in de lagune of een living desert tour in de woestijn. Zo kun je op weg naar de woestijn een groep flamingo’s spotten. Het centrum van Walvis Bay vond ik tegenvallen maar de omgeving is schitterend. Wil je meer weten over Walvis Bay, lees dan dit artikel. 👇
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Walvis Bay in Namibië is een kustplaats waar je geweldige excursies kunt maken, zoals een boottocht in de lagune of een living desert tour in de woestijn. Zo kun je op weg naar de woestijn een groep flamingo’s spotten. Het centrum van Walvis Bay vond ik tegenvallen maar de omgeving is schitterend. Wil je meer weten over Walvis Bay, lees dan dit artikel. 👇
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Aviation weather for Walvis Bay airport (Namibia) is “FYWB 281200Z AUTO 28008KT //// // ////// 27/15 Q1011” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/fywb/en #walvisbay #namibia #walvisbayairport #fywb #wvb #metar #aviation #aviationweather vl
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Aviation weather for Walvis Bay airport (Namibia) is “FYWB 281200Z AUTO 28008KT //// // ////// 27/15 Q1011” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/fywb/en #walvisbay #namibia #walvisbayairport #fywb #wvb #metar #aviation #aviationweather vl
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Aviation weather for Walvis Bay airport (Namibia) is “FYWB 281200Z AUTO 28008KT //// // ////// 27/15 Q1011” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/fywb/en #walvisbay #namibia #walvisbayairport #fywb #wvb #metar #aviation #aviationweather vl
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Aviation weather for Walvis Bay airport (Namibia) is “FYWB 281200Z AUTO 28008KT //// // ////// 27/15 Q1011” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/fywb/en #walvisbay #namibia #walvisbayairport #fywb #wvb #metar #aviation #aviationweather vl
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This photograph captures the beauty of the Namib desert's golden dunes near Walvis Bay.
#desertlandscape #namibdesert #namib #cunard #naturalbeauty #photography #sanddune #nature #africa #namibia #photo #walvisbay #sand #geology #scenic #namibdesert #adventure #queenanne #desert #dune #sanddunes #naturephotography #travel -
This photograph captures the beauty of the Namib desert's golden dunes near Walvis Bay.
#desertlandscape #namibdesert #namib #cunard #naturalbeauty #photography #sanddune #nature #africa #namibia #photo #walvisbay #sand #geology #scenic #namibdesert #adventure #queenanne #desert #dune #sanddunes #naturephotography #travel -
This photograph captures the beauty of the Namib desert's golden dunes near Walvis Bay.
#desertlandscape #namibdesert #namib #cunard #naturalbeauty #photography #sanddune #nature #africa #namibia #photo #walvisbay #sand #geology #scenic #namibdesert #adventure #queenanne #desert #dune #sanddunes #naturephotography #travel -
This photograph captures the beauty of the Namib desert's golden dunes near Walvis Bay.
#desertlandscape #namibdesert #namib #cunard #naturalbeauty #photography #sanddune #nature #africa #namibia #photo #walvisbay #sand #geology #scenic #namibdesert #adventure #queenanne #desert #dune #sanddunes #naturephotography #travel -
Tijdens mijn rondreis door Namibië maakte ik vanuit Swakopmund twee excursies in Walvis Bay: een bootcruise in de ochtend en 's middags een Living Desert Tour. In dit artikel zie je de foto’s van de spectaculaire landschappen en wat ik heb beleefd tijdens de Living Desert tour. Als je in Walvis Bay of omgeving bent, maak dan zo’n tour, een echte aanrader. 👇
https://jtravel.nl/afrika/zuid-afrika-namibie/foto-s-living-desert-tour/
llivingdeserttour #namibwoestijn #walvisbay #swakopmund #namibie
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Tijdens mijn rondreis door Namibië maakte ik vanuit Swakopmund twee excursies in Walvis Bay: een bootcruise in de ochtend en 's middags een Living Desert Tour. In dit artikel zie je de foto’s van de spectaculaire landschappen en wat ik heb beleefd tijdens de Living Desert tour. Als je in Walvis Bay of omgeving bent, maak dan zo’n tour, een echte aanrader. 👇
https://jtravel.nl/afrika/zuid-afrika-namibie/foto-s-living-desert-tour/
llivingdeserttour #namibwoestijn #walvisbay #swakopmund #namibie
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Tijdens mijn rondreis door Namibië maakte ik vanuit Swakopmund twee excursies in Walvis Bay: een bootcruise in de ochtend en 's middags een Living Desert Tour. In dit artikel zie je de foto’s van de spectaculaire landschappen en wat ik heb beleefd tijdens de Living Desert tour. Als je in Walvis Bay of omgeving bent, maak dan zo’n tour, een echte aanrader. 👇
https://jtravel.nl/afrika/zuid-afrika-namibie/foto-s-living-desert-tour/
llivingdeserttour #namibwoestijn #walvisbay #swakopmund #namibie
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This week’s episode of our Sailing Tropical Dawn podcast is around the theme of Frustrations. I guess we needed to vent some frustrations that have been popping up in the last few weeks, one of them being that we are still stuck in Walvis Bay Namibia. Even though we love it here, we are getting a bit of cabin fever and feeling like we want to be on our way towards St Helena and Brazil.
Check out this episode to find out what has been frustrating us and how we are dealing with it and how these frustrations seem to be part of the cruising life we have chosen for ourselves.
As always feel free to get in touch if you have comments, remarks, questions, advice, or anything else to share. You can reach us via our website svtropicaldawn.blog where we have a contact page. -
As we are preparing for our crossing from Walvis Bay in Namibia to St Helena in the middle of the South Atlantic ocean we recorded this episode of our Sailing Tropical Dawn podcast talking about how we prepare for being at see for more than a week. We mention provisioning for food, getting water and diesel. doing engine maintenance, how we prepare to cook while our gas stove is not working and more. As this episode goes live we will be on our way, check svtropicaldawn.blog/contact for how to stay in touch or you can click here to see where exactly we are and even send us a satellite text message, isn’t technology amazing?
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The past week was quite eventful: we dragged anchor, we had to drop our anchor and retrieve it the next day, we went on an excursion on the dinghy and almost lost the dinghy, and we got a rope caught in the dinghy’s prop. But we made it trough all that and are fine, and we have a new episode of our podcast to tell you about all these things.
We both wrote blog posts about dragging anchor, here’s Dimi’s version and this is Kay’s version.
Links: we mentioned the Pelican point lodge, here is the link to their website: pelicanpointlodge.com
Please get in touch and tell us what you think of our podcast or, if you have been in or if you can imagine being in the same situation, how did / would you react? svtropicaldawn.blog/contact/https://svtropicaldawn.blog/2023/03/10/5-calamities-staying-put/
#calamities #dinghy #draggingAnchor #Namibia #podcast #WalvisBay
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Another thing checked off our list: we dragged anchor. Wind gusting to 30 knots and more and high tide in a quite shallow anchorage which meant not enough chain out for the wind strength. Lessons learned and another claim for our insurance. We hit the cat behind us, not too badly but still. #cruisingLife #WalvisBay
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Another thing checked off our list: we dragged anchor. Wind gusting to 30 knots and more and high tide in a quite shallow anchorage which meant not enough chain out for the wind strength. Lessons learned and another claim for our insurance. We hit the cat behind us, not too badly but still. #cruisingLife #WalvisBay
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Had a nice swim today from where we are anchored to a boat all the way at the far end of the anchorage. Tidalstewam is quite strong here, especially over the sandbank I swim over, way there was against the stream and I’m quite chuffed I managed to swim this far after only a few days of getting back into swimming. #swimming #WalvisBay #cruisingLife #beatyesterday https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/10625998595
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Had a nice swim today from where we are anchored to a boat all the way at the far end of the anchorage. Tidalstewam is quite strong here, especially over the sandbank I swim over, way there was against the stream and I’m quite chuffed I managed to swim this far after only a few days of getting back into swimming. #swimming #WalvisBay #cruisingLife #beatyesterday https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/10625998595
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New episode of our “Tropical Dawn podcast” is out, this week we are chatting about our time at Walvis Bay and our Namibian road trip. http://svtropicaldawn.blog/2023/03/03/podcast-episode-about-walvis-bay/ #svTropicalDawn #podcast #WalvisBay #Namibia #roadTrip #cruisingLife
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New episode of our “Tropical Dawn podcast” is out, this week we are chatting about our time at Walvis Bay and our Namibian road trip. http://svtropicaldawn.blog/2023/03/03/podcast-episode-about-walvis-bay/ #svTropicalDawn #podcast #WalvisBay #Namibia #roadTrip #cruisingLife
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This week’s episode of our Tropical Dawn podcast will be about Walvis Bay in Namibia, where we currently still are at anchor and have been for over a month as well as about the road trip we did throughout Namibia.
Our blog post about Walvis Bay is now on our spanking new S/V Tropical Dawn blog: svtropicaldawn.blog/2023/01/29/walvis-bay/
Noonsite page about Walvis Bay: www.noonsite.com/place/namibia/walvis-bay/
The correct title for Joshua Slocum‘s book is Sailing Alone Around the World (so not Sailing Around the World Alone as I said in the podcast).
We also mentioned the Damara people and the Himba people when talking about our road trip.
To contact us we now have a contact page, also on our blog: svtropicaldawn.blog/contact/ -
Episode 2 "Passage(s)" of our Tropical Dawn podcast is live: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dimitri31801/episodes/2023-02-17T09_14_05-08_00 or search for "Tropical Dawn" on your favourite podcast platform. In this episode we dive into the few passages we've made until now and that brought us to #WalvisBay #Namibia. #cruisingLife #podcast
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Episode 2 "Passage(s)" of our Tropical Dawn podcast is live: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dimitri31801/episodes/2023-02-17T09_14_05-08_00 or search for "Tropical Dawn" on your favourite podcast platform. In this episode we dive into the few passages we've made until now and that brought us to #WalvisBay #Namibia. #cruisingLife #podcast
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First post by my wife @Kayza about her/our experience trying to sail from Cape Town to St Helena. Nice to read her experience, even though we did it together, reflecting back and writing about it always gives a different perspective. Check out her other posts via @kay #cruisingLife #Luderitz #WalvisBay #Namibia #sailing
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@dimitri WordPress doesn't seem to add tags when posting to ActivityPub so here they are: #cruisingLife #Namibia #sailing #WalvisBay
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Walvis Bay
We ended up in Walvis Bay, Namibia after our second attempt at reaching St Helena failed. Our backstay broke about two and a half days sailing from Luderitz towards St Helena, I’ll write another post about that. So we had to come here to fix the broken backstay as well as the kicker attachement to the boom which we broke in out first attempt to reach St Helena.
Walvis Bay is the biggest port in Namibia and as such has much more facilities than Luderitz. It is still a lot less than what we were used to in Cape Town but at least we could get the needed repairs done. We also lost our small 2.5 HP two stroke outboard engine in Luderitz and while here ordered a replacement: a new 4 stroke 6 HP Suzuki outboard.
The first evening we went on shore we met Garry who lives on Grace, a sailboat anchored in the bay in front of the waterfront and yacht club. He was super helpful in getting us in touch with the people who could help us with the repairs and outboard engine.
There are mooring balls available as well as a walk on mooring, although the latter has no facilities and is a bit of a walk away from the waterfront and the Walvis Bay Yacht Club. The yacht club manages both mooring balls and mooring and you have to become temporary member and pay a fee to use them. For that you get access to the showers, can use their dinghy jetty and get a discount at the restaurant.
Water is available at the yacht club, although the pressure often is very low. The mornings seem to be best for showers and filling water containers as the pressure is often better. For diesel you will have to go into town, there are communal taxies which cost 13 Namibian dollar per person to get to town and 26 to get back (the yacht club/water front is out of the way so you pay double fee).
For the repairs we needed we got Gert La Roux to do those, he was able to fix both our backstay and our boom and he seems to be a bit of a boating jack of all trades so he’s probably your man for most boat work. Here are his contact details:
Neptunam Marine ServicesGert looked for a second hand outboard engine but couldn’t find one so we ordered a new on from Rob who is the local Suzuki Marine dealer. He was super helpful as well. Here are his contact details:
Suzuki Marine WalvisWe accidentally inflated one of our PFDs earlier in our trip when it got wet on the floor of our dinghy so we needed to replace the CO2 cartridge. Place to be for that and for servicing life rafts and fire extinguishers is Benguella Enterprises. They also do International paints and other equipment, mainly for bigger boats but lots of thing handy for sailing yachts as well.
Suzuki MarineThe closest to a chandlery for small boats is Eigelaars Marine Store. They seem to be geared mainly towards anglers and fishing but were very helpful and can order stuff from Cape Town if needed and if you have the time to wait for it to get to Walvis Bay. For ropes and more fishing and general boating stuff Marine Ropes around the corner from Eigelaars is the place to be.
Walvis Bay probably has more marine stores and service providers than anywhere else in Namibia, it being the largest port, but it is as I said earlier: compared to Cape Town there is not that much. Still it might be, as for us, your last chance to get things before crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
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