Walvis Bay day trips are best done once you have completed your car hire transactions at Windhoek Airport, Hosea Kutako Int. Walvis Bay is the cutest of seaside hamlets, has great beaches and is a must on any vacation itinerary. On arriving take a stroll down to the beach, you notice that although the lighthouse seems far back from the shore, it is because episodic floods of the Kuiseb river. Huge deposits of silt and soil were washed down onto Pelican Point over the years. This continual build up has the sandbank now extending almost two kilometres clear of the original location of this picturesque lighthouse.

You can tour to Pelican Point and beautiful Bay Area with some of the many boat operators and even go out on a huge luxury catamaran. You will be able to watch the many dolphins racing alongside the vessel, before disappearing in to the depths of the bay. Then there is the abundance of bird life that frequents the bay, a must for any bird lover. It is hard to keep count of all the different species that you encounter. What seems like a millions of birds will just take off and haphazardly circle the boat before diving into the sea to catch their dinner.