Cape Cross Namibia Seals Africa

There’s a bazillion of them, aren’t there? The most significant thing about them is how bad they smell. They smell really, really bad. They’re also noisy. If you watch them you’ll see that they are constantly squabbling about something. Well, not all of them and not all of the time, but enough of them are irritated at another seal, and expressing that irritation vigorously, to let a person know that parts of the community are not in the best of spirits at any given moment. But, they are amazing. I could have watched them for hours, even with the stench. Some of them were so cute. It’s said that the total population of the several colonies of seals up and down the Namibian coast is 1.2 million seals. They are a political hot potato in Namibia as a segment of the Namibian population brutally slaughters a percentage of the herd at a certain time of the year. I’m just glad there was not a protest at Cape Cross and we were able to see the sight. We had been told if there was a protest at the site, the overland company had a policy of avoiding any situations that might lead to bad publicity. Now, that’s what I call taking the moral high ground, isn’t it?