Hoanib River reaches the ocean Niël Terblanché THE desert landscape around Möwe Bay on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast was transformed by floodwater in the Hoanib River flowing into the Atlantic Ocean. Good rains over parts of north-western Namibia since the Independence long weekend saw several of the normally dry rivers that sometimes flow into the ocean come into flood. At this stage, the Hoanib River is the only one that forced its way through the Namib Desert to the Atlantic Ocean. Water flow was