Squeezed between the larger Huab and Uniab rivers, the Koichab (not to be confused with the Koichab Pan near Lüderitz) has quite a small catchment area and floods relatively rarely. Thus it seems more of a depression than a major riverbed. For fishing visitors, the Koichab is the southern boundary of the Torra Bay fishing area.

Meanwhile south of this river, but north of Toscanini, you do pass the wrecks of the Atlantic Pride, the Luanda (1969), and the Montrose (1973), though they're not easy to spot, and often the road is far enough from the sea for what's left of these wrecks to be obscured.