nce you are in Lüderitz, please don’t get too carried away by the beautiful Art Nouveau and German imperialstyle buildings, (or the diamonds) because then you will definitely run out of time. Our trip along the peninsula south of Lüderitz proved to be most fruitful, with our first sighting being a lonely Chestnutbanded Plover wading along the edge of the Radford Bay lagoon. At Sturmvogelbucht, we unfortunately didn’t see any storm petrels, but we did see our first pair of African Black Oystercatchers If you haven’t seen one of these rock waders with their red eyes and red legs, ‘you ain’t seen nothing yet’. At least
