The biggest part of the Namib Desert lies between Luderitz and Walvisbaai. Close to Luderitz, mans search for riches turned up an opportunity, when the first diamond was found in the sand.
Once you leave Luderitz and travel deeper into the desert, it is difficult to imagine that man would have chosen to make such an inaccessible place their home.
Investigate the Otavi, which was a steamship, loaded with guano, that ran aground on rocks in Spencer Bay in 1945, and then visit the man from Mercury Island.