Of the Skeleton coast, The Lonely Planet Guide informs - "This treacherous coast – a foggy region with rocky and sandy coastal shallows, rusting shipwrecks and soaring dunes – has long been a graveyard for unwary ships and their crews, hence its forbidding name."
We stopped briefly at one of the more recent shipwrecks along the coast and watched the fierce progression of the incoming tide over the course of 10 minutes or so as it battered the Zeila. She was stranded on 25 August 2008 in the early morning hours shortly after leaving Walvis Bay.
