Walvis Bay or Whale Bay in Namibia is a deep water port with smooth water thanks to a long sandbar along the Atlantic coast. About ninety percent of the produce coming and going from south-central Africa moves by truck through this port in containers for incoming and outgoing transport by sea.
The shipping of containers is growing and port facilities have just been increased to handle more. The population has grown from sixty-two thousand in 2011 to sixty-seven thousand in 2008. Large piles of salt on the dock indicate another source of income.
We chose a desert tour for our excursion at this port. They picked us up at the port and within a half-hour, we were out in the desert. Swakopmund is a city of about forty-five thousand people, just 20 miles north along the Atlantic coast.
Our guide was very knowledgeable about the desert environment and started by giving us the rules for visiting the desert.
The bridge below and the plants growing around it are there because of a slow-moving river below the sand. The bridge allows a highway to be built over the sand and protects the ecology of the land below it.
There is a variety of life in the desert. Many live below the sand when it is hot. Look at the translucent body of this little guy.
This one is not the same as the other one
This one below is a little bigger. He has a tongue that is twice the length of his body. One of the guides found an insect and held it out. Sure enough, when his hand was about two body lengths away, the tongue snatched the insect from his hand so fast it was hard to believe it had happened. He will walk from plant to plant looking for bugs.
The bold little bird below follows people around in the desert. It has learned that people stir up things and where they go, there is often food nearby.
There is a variety of plants growing in the desert. This one can provide a home for insects as it dries out.
Look for the bug in the shade, bottom left 
A magnetic compass is of limited use in the desert because of the iron sitting on the surface of the sand.
The cloud of moisture over the Atlantic can be used as a pointer to the west.
Some of these pictures above look more like a painting. Oil platforms sit out in the ocean along the coast.
We returned to Walvis bay along the Atlantic coast and stopped for a few more pictures.
Swakopmund pier on the left and pillars from a bridge where the river used to flow. 
South Atlantic Ocean.
This part of the Atlantic coast is alive with sea life and birds of all kinds. Do you like Flamingos?
OMG, my sister would be in love there with all the flamingos! Her late husband loved them and every time she see even a picture of one, it reminds her of her husband. What a beautiful country to visit!