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3.5 amazing hours, Namib Desert (#6 in series)

 

 

6.55 pm, 21 November 2022, 32 minutes before sunset:  all 10 of us – 8 “punters”, plus tour leader and nature guide/driver – are standing on the deck in front of Kulala Desert Lodge.

Individually and collectively, we are agog.

We have a 360 degree field of view.

Wherever we look, the landscape’s apparent nature is in flux – its face/s changing dramatically, second by second.

Rain, shadow, light, clouds, mountains, plains and dunes are almost literally dancing.

This day’s final “daylight” hour has many more than seven “veils”.

 

 

Rain showers dance across Namib, circa 40 ks east of Sossusvlei, 6.55 pm, 21 November 2022. All photos copyright Doug Spencer.

 

 

 

Namib Desert, circa 40 ks east of Sossusvlei, after sandstorm, then rain. 6.56 pm, 21 November 2022. All photos copyright Doug Spencer.

 

 

6.56 pm, 21 November 2022, Namib Desert, circa 40 ks east of Sossusvlei, after sandstorm, then rain. All photos copyright Doug Spencer.

 

 

 

The air is pleasantly cool.

 

 

Kulala Desert Lodge, Namib Desert, 7.04 pm, 21 November 2022. All photos copyright Doug Spencer.

 

 

As you will see in this series’ next chapter, by 7 pm the view to our north (the landscape photos in this post all look south/ish, away from the “sand sea”) had become “as day is to night”, when compared to the “face” it had shown – or not shown – just two hours earlier.

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