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Namib Desert’s northwest (#29 in series: riverbed to ridge tops)

 

This is the current series’ final trio of images taken from the bed of the (mostly dry-surfaced, but intermittently greened/vegetated) Hoarusib.

Only on very infrequent occasions is flowing water readily evident; usually, parts of the riverbed double as road.

All three photos were taken within a single “window” of less than two minutes, as I walked a very short distance, and pointed my 400mm lens north/ish.

At this point the Hoarusib’s source is circa 280 kilometres further inland.

The Atlantic’s “skeleton coast” is less than 20 kilometres distant.

Here, I think, is one of “our” planet’s singular places.

Arguably, no other (relatively) accessible location so richly deserves to be described as “pristine wilderness”…

…and, surely, very few others offer so many surprises.

 

 

Different view, but same focal length(400 mm) & almost-same vantage point as this post’s other two images. Photos ©️ Doug Spencer.

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Looking up & north-ish from Hoarusib’s bed, several ks upstream of Atlantic’s “skeleton coast”, 9.17 am, 14 November 2022. Photos ©️ Doug Spencer.

 

 

There is a grand total of one “overnight stay” available, locally; it does not greatly resemble any other hotel, anywhere…as you will see, in this series’ final chapter.

 

Published in Americas and Eurasia and Africa nature and travel photographs