At 5. 26 pm on 14 November 2022 we stood on shifting sand, and in pleasantly cool air.
Below, in front of us, was the Atlantic Ocean, lapping Namibia’s “Skeleton Coast”.
We stood in a “sea” of sand – sand, only, it seemed.
However, the beach/coastal plain below us was clearly not devoid of vegetation.
Also “down there” are freshwater wetlands, fed by the Hoarusib River.
Visible flows are rare, unpredictable, usually short-lived.
However, as is true of many “desert rivers”, water often continues to move through them for much longer periods, below the riverbeds’ surfaces.
(Photo copyright Doug Spencer, taken one hour before the featured image in this series’ first chapter)