From Sprinbok to Port Nolloth

I am cleaning my photos and I thought that I should show you more pictures from my December  trip to the west coast.
When you reach the last part of the road to get to the west coast of South Africa  and you have passed Springbok you are out of the Kalahari but it does not mean you are out of the desert.

Map modified from Google Maps. In the ellipse is the road along which the following photos were taken

 After Springbok and getting to the west coast you are in Namaqualand. Beautiful place mostly known for its daisies ...yes I did say "desert" and now I am saying "daisies"...which only bloom during the spring during the rainy (or at least rain-ier) season. I have never seen it during the daisy season. But here is what it looks like during the rest of the year.

And then you get near the coast and the cool water of  the Atlantic often results in a solid band of fog and this is what it can look like.

It can be a line of somewhat fluffy  clouds over the ocean.

But mostly it shows up as a very straight line and everything is hot and dry inland while everything in the fog is cold and damp. The boundary between clear sky and fog sometimes stays over the water (presumably when the breeze comes from the land) and then it is a beautiful beach day. 

But mostly it comes over the land (presumably when the breeze comes from the sea) and then you can forget about going to the beach. Especially because this fog is quite cold but you need to either cover up or put serious sun screen on. You can burn through it in the worse possible way because you cannot feel the heat of the sun. I saw somebody who had spent the day well covered because of the cold but walking bear feet on beach who was in a wheelchair because each one of their feet was a solid blister which had to be pump empty (with a syringe) by a doctor.

Still it is a nice effect to see.