Mowe Bay

Möwe Bay is the northern end-point on the C34 road into the Skeleton Coast National Park just 10km north of the ephemeral Hoanib River mouth. It serves as the park’s HQ approximately 80km north of Terrace Bay and is strictly off-limits to casual and independent travellers. Möwe Bay houses a small museum recording the history of local shipwrecks with artefacts and skeletal remains of wildlife found in the area. Remnants of the Suiderkus wreck are found on a nearby beach which is strewn with semi-precious stones and pebbles. The local seal colony provides rich pickings for scavenging hyaena, jackal and on occasion desert-adapted lion. Several springs forming part of the linear oasis system with in the Hoanib valley are located nearby within the National Park.