Ep. 941: Cycling Namibia’s Skeleton Coast - Revisited - Kate Leeming
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Originally aired August 9th, 2021
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 | Hey, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:24.4 | I'm your host Mason. |
| 0:25.5 | Today is a throwback episode to a few years ago when we talked to Kate Leaming about cycling Namibia's skeleton coast. |
| 0:33.7 | And I was recently inspired to revisit this episode because I just listened to a podcast about this |
| 0:41.1 | area of the world in Namibia and it was on, I believe it was on everything everywhere daily |
| 0:46.3 | hosted by Gary Arndt. It's a daily podcastist about one specific topic and it's like 15 minutes long. |
| 0:53.7 | It's one of my favorite podcasts this is |
| 0:55.7 | a genuine recommendation gary has been on this show we've interviewed him i love his podcast i |
| 1:01.5 | actually support it monthly i'm a huge fan i listen to every single episode that comes out every |
| 1:06.1 | single day it's like part of my daily routine and he talked about this area and I was like, you know what? |
| 1:11.4 | We had Kate on the show and she has bicycle the length of Namibia's coast, basically. |
| 1:18.0 | And it was unbelievable. |
| 1:19.1 | It's sand dunes that go right into the desert. |
| 1:21.7 | And it's the only place I believe in the world that lions hunt marine life. |
| 1:26.8 | They hunt seals. And so there's this area where lions have |
| 1:30.0 | evolved to know how to hunt seals. It's amazing. And it lives up to its name, skeleton coasters, |
| 1:36.3 | like whale skeletons on shore and old shipwrecks that just are there in the sand that have |
| 1:41.9 | fluent coastline that moves around because, as you know, sand dunes |
| 1:45.7 | tend to move around with the wind over time. And it's an amazing place and I'd love to go. |
| 1:50.6 | And I thought this was such a cool episode that we're shouting it out again and going to play it. |
| 1:55.3 | And Kate has been on the show a couple times because she's biked. I think she wrote a fat tire bike to the South Pole. |
| 2:01.2 | She's done all kinds of amazing things and eventually has aspirations to go into space and do adventures |
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