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”.
The air is pleasantly cool.
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.