The way to the world-famous Etosha National Park leads us first to the so-called “Skeleton Coast”, whose name is due to the numerous shipwrecks in this area. Besides a few small wrecks on the beach, however, there is relatively little to see of them and we lack the motivation for a sightseeing flight over the coast.
For us much more interesting is the nearby seal colony – more precisely: dwarf fur seals – at the “Cape Cross”, which can be visited for a small entrance fee. Here hundreds of thousands of female seals cavort with their offspring, now about 4-5 months old – the males only come to the coast during the mating season in October. At first we are greeted by an acrid stench and we briefly consider using our FFP2 masks for other purposes, but our noses quickly get used to it. And so we stroll for about an hour over the wooden footbridge through the colony and observe the seals from partly very close. Some sleep under the jetty, thousands cavort on the beach and in the water, we see first swimming exercises of young seals, nursing mothers and a small one on mother search – one would like to take it most dear in the arm and comfort 
. The mass of seals and the impressions associated with them are simply overwhelming!!!
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Since Etosha National Park is too far, we have to stop for one more night, then we will enter the national park via the west entrance, where hopefully a few animal sightings await us…