Walvis Bay Lagoon — Southern Africa's Most Important Coastal Wetland

The 45,000-hectare Walvis Bay Lagoon is a RAMSAR-listed wetland and the single most important coastal birding site in southern Africa — supporting over 100,000 birds at peak season. Greater and lesser flamingos feed year-round in their thousands (the pink shimmer on the lagoon is visible from the highway). Pelicans, avocets, sanderlings, turnstones, knots, oystercatchers and dozens of Palearctic migratory wader species congregate here. The lagoon shoreline along the Esplanade is freely accessible and requires no guide.