When you’re finished at the Windhoek car hirefrom Windhoek, cnr Sam Nujoma and Stein Str. The first impression, one gets of the coastal town of Walvis Bay is that of palm trees blowing in the wind and the well maintained grass verges. Flamingos in the Bay area are a beautiful sight to witness. Walvis is truly a welcoming oasis in the desert, after a long journey along the Atlantic Ocean shoreline. The slick wet, sea lions frolic around the light house while pelicans swoop and skip across the surface of the sea in the search of fish. Their huge beaks seem to be open so wide as the gulp down their catch of the day. Further down is the massive bird colony that from afar looks like a seething mass of feather and wings that emits loud squawking. A greater part of the lagoon and shoreline forms part of the Walvis Bay Wetlands protectorate. Her is the ultimate bird watchers paradise.

As far back as 1915 a small lantern was mounted on a wooden pole to mark the boundary of the peninsula and later on kerosene lamps were used. However in 1959 a modern replacement of a 250 watt lamp was installed, thus increasing the light house range and early warning sailors far out at sea.