Ep. 754: Cycling Namibia’s Skeleton Coast - Kate Leeming
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Cycling: Kate Leeming Cycles Namibia's Skeleton Coast – Brutal Desert-to-Ocean Dunes, Salt Water, Lion-Hunting Shores, Unique Extreme Adventure Ride. Imagine the endless desolation and sand dunes of the Sahara Desert abruptly falling into the ocean. That’s Namibia’s Skeleton Coast. It’s a brutally punishing environment with the only water being cruelly limitless and ironically undrinkable as it’s filled with salt. The other challenges include dodging the African lions that walk up and down the shore, hoping to snag a meal via a seal lion, the only place on earth that lions actually hunt by entering the ocean.
Kate is back today to tell us about cycling the length of this incredibly unique place.
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| 0:00.0 | one outer limit of where the lions are |
| 0:04.0 | and he sort of was tracking them and sort of knew where they were. |
| 0:07.3 | So I had to actually cycle past where there was a lioness and cub, |
| 0:12.0 | which was kind of like you'll have to see the film. Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. |
| 0:34.5 | I'm your host, Mason Gravely. |
| 0:36.3 | Today's episode really gets me excited because to me it is |
| 0:41.0 | it is just pure adventure. It is an amazing place, a faraway land for most of us, and it's doing |
| 0:50.0 | something really difficult in that place and something amazing. |
| 0:55.0 | Kate Leaming is joining us. |
| 0:57.0 | She has recently bicycled the entire Namibian coastline, |
| 1:02.0 | which is called the Skeleton Coast. |
| 1:05.0 | And the reason it's called the Skeleton Coast is because, |
| 1:08.0 | well, there's a lot of skeletons there for one, but it is, just imagine for a second, the Sahara Desert disappearing into the ocean. |
| 1:16.5 | Just the dunes fall right off. |
| 1:18.0 | The wind is blowing sand directly into the ocean as far north and south as the eye can see along the shore. |
| 1:26.2 | So it's just massive sand dunes, no plants, no animals, no communities, no anything |
| 1:32.0 | other than the random whale skeleton or the random barred ship that washed up on shore 30 years ago |
| 1:40.1 | and is just rotting there. |
| 1:42.5 | That's it. |
| 1:43.3 | That's all that's out there. Other than, get this, |
| 1:46.7 | other than lions, literally African lions that walk up and down the shore hunting sea lions, |
| 1:56.5 | it's the only place in the world where lions enter the water, |
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