Journey to Henties Bay
Good day, February 10th, so we’re looking at a Tuesday. So today’s the day I’m going to go to Hentyn Bay, which is going north from Sokopmund, and just a little town, 70-some kilometers, and they have beaches, beach stops along the way, and the South Africans’ word for that is “”kraai””. So you have President’s Gat, all kinds of funny names. Gat, which of course the Dutch name means— the ‘gat’ part means you’re behind. Anyway, it’s just a fun play of words, but it’s really just desert, just, just desert.
Desert Towns and Infrastructure
There is another town a little bit north of Swakopmund where people have second homes. And they’re just homes that are spaciously located away from one another. No, no, nothing green, just homes, and mostly boarded up. No services, nothing, absolutely nothing. But I guess that could be a nice, nice place to hang out. Then there was a desalination plant on the other side of the road. I looked at that to take a look at, but that didn’t seem to be an option that day for sure. So I think that is the water that is getting supplied to Socomond, which is of course a little distance away, but it’s a high production place. So we have those facilities around. The world to get fresh water from seawater. Very good stuff.
Meeting a Local Student
Then in Hentingby, I ended up going— there’s a campus, like a small campus part of another university that I drove onto. And when I drove out of it, there was this young lady that was trying to get somewhere walking, so I gave her a ride. She wanted to go to the spa. And she was studying fisheries and was having a good time at the place where she was studying. Her study was the only full-time one. All the others were part-time studies. And she was very ambitious of what she wanted to do in the future. So when she asked about what I was doing, I shared with her that I had driven from the Netherlands, and there was not one way in the world that I could make her believe that I came driving all the way from the Netherlands. Even after we parted ways, when she came to her destination, she said, no, that is impossible. It is absolutely impossible. I don’t believe you. Not, not a way. Well, I couldn’t help couldn’t change her mind. What can I say?
Dining at Misty Bay Restaurant
Then there was the Misty Bay Restaurant, which had a sign on one street with no indication of where the restaurant was. And there was no— I mean, it wasn’t there. It turns out it was a really big block, and it had to be— it was on the other side, but it took me a while to find it. But they did have delicious food. Really delicious food. They have meat pies, man, you eat your fingers with it. Then you see other people, Afrikaners, white people, black people, a lot of white people actually that hang out in these parts of town. And Henriette Bay is a good place. So I just went there for the day. And I toured around town a little bit, got the feel for it.
The Stranded Boat and Rock Vendors
And then on the way back, I stopped at where there was a boat that had come ashore. In other words, it couldn’t leave anymore. It turned out to be a boat that had been in tow, and it was in tow because it was purchased to be scrapped. And then it basically escaped and it’s left on the beach since then. At that same place were probably about 10 people, local people, although one said he came from 250 kilometers away. I don’t know, is that still local if there’s nothing in between? They were selling rocks and they were basically sitting there in the sun all day long, cooking. I mean, they’re being baked in the sun, but they— I guess they’re used to it. Just to hope that a few people will stop by and buy some rocks from them. It’s amazing, absolutely amazing.
Return to Swakopmund
So then I made it back to Swakopmund Point and probably did another class or two for my real estate stuff. On for another day tomorrow. Thanks for coming along.
