March 17, 2023
Happy St Patrick’s Day to all the Irish readers
Today’s town, Luderitz Namibia. Namibia a country of 2.5 million citizen. Namibia was a German colony from 1880 until 1919 when it became under South African rule.After lots of resistance in the 70’s and 80’s it became independent in 1990.English is the official language, but Afrikaans is also widely spoken.Today we’re anchored in a bay just outside Luderitz. We took the tender into port for a 9AM shore excursion to an deserted German Diamond mine. Luderitz looks like a nice town with lots of buildings from the German era. The town is very clean , no garbage lying around anywhere. The landscape is very desert like, lots of white sand with rock outcroppings. No trees or grass is seen anywhere. After an 20 min drive we arrived at the old mine site. They toured us through the old buildings were German families used to live, including an old bowling alley. We were warned to look out for snakes, but we didn’t see any. As the old mine was far enough away to hear any noise from the road , there was total silence, just the wind noise. After spending a few hours here, we returned back to town. We wandered through the town for a few more hours, stopped for a coffee and bought some stamps to be able to send the grandkids postcards. I run into an old Man who claimed that he was one of the last German people left in town. Apparently he was here since 1939 he claimed, still carrying a copy of Der Spiegel magazine under his arm We returned to the ship around 1ish.The rest of the afternoon we hang out laying low for some St Patrick’s festivities tonight.
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” By – St.Agustine.
Cheers
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