Moon Landcape Cloud Rise

Today was not only an extremely early start (5:30 a.m.) but it was a risky one too. The aim was to drive around an hour to a location known as the Moon Landscape which is an area that is supposed to look like... well, I think you can guess. Why was it risky? Because the weather hadn't changed from last night and cloud was a high probability. Just four of us decided to brave it, with Francesca and Giulia deciding that sleep was the better option. We hoped it would be fine.

You can see from the photos that it wasn't fine and that the cloud had settled in. Cloud is very common along the coast of Namibia because colder and humid air from the Atlantic meets the warm air of Namibia, so you get cloud and fog and cooler temperatures. So we got cloud.

Finding great photos was challenging, I must admit, and I felt I was forcing my photography here. Nothing sprang out that I felt I wanted to bring home to show people, though I did get some photos I liked where I used one of the others to bring a sense of scale to the landscape. Although I enjoyed being out with my camera with the others, I felt it was very much a 'take it or leave it' location. To be honest, as we drove to the Goanikontes Oasis Restaurant for breakfast, I felt there were more opportunities for photography as we passed through rock valleys.

The place we stopped for breakfast was brilliant though, and another place adorned with old 'stuff' including an apparently crashed plane attached to the hillside. We ate our breakfast in the back of a pickup truck, and the sign showing what happens if your dog poops was hilarious. We all enjoyed it here, and I purchased my souvenir Namibia fridge magnet from the shop before we headed back to Walvis Bay.

After returning, we had a little downtime, then we left to see if we could find flamingos to photograph. We found them, but they were not all that close to the shore so I'll have to check my camera photos to see if I've got something worthwhile.Read more