Namibia's Skeleton Coast is named so for two different types of skeletons that littered the beaches: whales and ships. Thanks to the end of mass whaling the whale bones are now all gone, but the bones…

Welcome to the first annual GSS Desert Week! In time-honoured tradition, we’ll mostly be posting about deserts. For about a week! The Namib Desert in Namibia and Angola forms part of the Namib-Naukluft National Park, and…

This is the hulking, rusted remains of some sort of large ship off the coast of South Africa... a few hundred miles up the coast from here is the famous skeleton coast, home to countless shipwrecks.…