Walvis Bay — The Seal & Pelican Rain

Walvis Bay — A Chuva de Focas e Pelicanos

The rain of seals and pelicans in Walvis Bay. We left at 8 AM, the tour started at 9 AM. They had promised us seals and pelicans, but we weren't prepared for such abundance.

Walvis Bay is about 30 km south of Swakopmund. Paula drove so I could write the previous day's post :).

Mola Mola Tours... We knew it as sunfish, turns out it's also called "Mola Mola". The same phenomenon that happens on land safaris occurred: we started by taking a thousand photos of a distant seal until we realized we were surrounded by them and only took photos if one was in our lap.

Walvis Bay has a colony of 70,000 seals. I don't know if we didn't see them all.

The pelicans, on the other hand, constantly entered and left the boat and were shooed away by John with a stick. We were clearly team-pelican and cheered for them to make a successful landing on the bow to annoy the Slovaks who were bothered by the bird.

One of the Slovaks looked like grandpa João, and that's how he was baptized for the rest of the morning.

We also saw a jackal, waiting in the middle of a group of seals for an opportunity to earn a meal.

We saw an African penguin, and several other types of birds.

Close to lunchtime we disembarked on the beach where a picnic awaited us that included oysters. The Slovaks also liked oysters, but the two Germans didn't, more for us.

We had lunch in Walvis at a restaurant that had rissóis, bacalhau à Brás and à Gomes de Sá. Easy to guess the nationality of the owners.

The afternoon was relaxed in Swakopmund at the rooftop pool, and wandering peacefully through the city streets, discovering its corners.

Vasco still had time to spread some SLB stickers to mark territory.

We returned to dinner at TUG curious if Armando had done his homework and knew some Benfica player names. One of the other employees told me upon arrival: "Armando has been practicing all afternoon: Otamendi, Otamendi...". As soon as we saw Armando he says "Trubin, Rafa Silva, Manu Silva and Omatendi", he really said Omatendi but test passed :)

It was our last dinner and it's confirmed that TUG doesn't disappoint. We had the best table, booked the day before, to watch the sunset on the pier. Instead of Bob Marleys today we had a local music group, very good!

We went home to finish laughing, and listening, for the hundredth time to "125 Azul", shouting.

Tomorrow is the day to take the boys to Windhoek airport. We're going to miss them.

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