Swirling Water

Swirling Water, originally uploaded by ~Yus~.

Swirling Water

Explored on 26th August 07 :)

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Wow!!!

Wow!!!, originally uploaded by La Route.

Being in the lead car, I watch the others gliding down the dunes in Sandwich Bay…
#1 on Explore, August 29th, 2007 and reached #1 on August 30th, even if fleetingly - the shock!!!
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On my four week trip to Namibia, Botswana, Zambia for Victoria Falls and finally in Mozambique I took over 2500 photos and it will take me awhile to work through them. I don’t wish to bore you with images you’ve seen dozens of times and so I will try to show you my view of this part of Africa in a very condensed fashion, I hope I succeed.

My trip was quite extraordinary, firstly I drove, on my own for 13 days and 2700 km. . I had one worry, my tires! The roads are surprisingly good but I had been told that punctures happened frequently on the many gravel roads and so I drove like a ballet dancer trying to avoid any too sharp rock… I don’t know how to change a tire!! At least twice, I drove for 150 km without meeting another car…

At 825,418 km² (318,696 mi²)[2], Namibia is the world’s thirty-fourth largest country (after Venezuela). It is comparable in size to Pakistan, and is about half the size of the US state of Alaska. After Mongolia, Namibia is the least densely populated country in the world (2.5 persons per km²).
(Wikipedia)

The people, a little over 2,000.000 are very welcoming in this very arid country. There is no feeling of tension and I was very comfortable driving on my own.

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Pathway

146, originally uploaded by Maurizio Polese.

 

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double rainbow

double rainbow, originally uploaded by john curley.

On Friday, after hours of nasty wind and blowing sand, we got a little rain. It wasn’t a downpour, just a bunch of giant drops that made little craters on the desert floor and had the cars and vans and RVs looking splatty.

People had pretty much been hunkered down for the afternoon, waiting out the whiteout as best they could. And there were lots of pleasant ways to do that. But still, you only want to stay inside for so long.

So when the sand stopped blowing and this rainbow appeared, everyone went into the middle of the streets or climbed on top of their vehicles and looked up and waved and laughed and drank and danced and snapped pictures.

It was already the thickest rainbow I’d ever seen, and then when the double appeared, it was like someone punched up the music another level and the whole crowd went a little more crazy on the dance floor.

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Sand martial arts

, originally uploaded by Q8_essence.

 

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Natural Umbrellas

Natural Umbrellas, originally uploaded by aremac.

 

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Playing in the water

, originally uploaded by BenGoode.

 

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Hairpin bends

金水公路, originally uploaded by Surform.

 

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beauty in nature

beauty in nature, originally uploaded by myrmician.

i live for shots like this…

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english bay

english bay, originally uploaded by Leeanne munn.

Vancouver

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