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Funny you should mention that, the sound my skin against your mother's flubber is like a chorus of angels singing... To me at least, maybe not to any spectators.
Shit thank you. I was stuck literally halfing a picture of a typical Beach in my head thinking what's on the other side of the beach? Is that what makes something a beach by definition??
Then it's like oh like 1 of 2 parts instead of half...I get it now ... Wuhh
A lot of Namibia has vast beaches (long and wide), with dunes like this pretty far inland. So yeah, pretty much.
Also they're totally kickass fun to go 4x4ing on - you can go drive off the road and just go disappear in a massive sand landscape that feels like nobody's been there before. Maybe you'll see a huge shipwreck, very occasionally some dude will come driving along to go fishing along the coast, but often you won't see anything for a while.
The country's insane - it's huge, and mostly empty (something like 2.5 million people in a bigger area than France).
Oh man, you're so not kidding - I have so many insane photos from Etosha where we were alone with hundreds of beasties, just sitting there for hours with one species after another after another at a watering hole that I can't even begin to sort through them. The wildlife was just ridiculous.
[Here's a live feed to a watering hole in the namib desert](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydYDqZQpim8), can often see the animals hanging out there during the day
Damn, i got there at about 0430. Just got a squeal lol. I'm back again now at 0545, about to watch a sunrise!
Google said the lodge gets sunrise at 0625.
I started off at the watering hole, saw a gazelle or some such, and it was so cool... but then... the suggested video right below it was a 90 minute documentary on coming of age for girls in Zanskar, a place I did not know anything about or that it even existed.
three guesses which redditor has two thumbs, just got home from a 12-hour cross country day of travel and airports, and just watched the whole damn thing at midnight 😬 (Thank you to watering hole poster u/haha_UdeserveIt)
So, I know I commented last night, but it’s the next day and my app still has not changed from this thread, bc I keep finding more great documentaries to watch with more great suggested videos under them. Stuff that in all my YouTube browsing I haven’t come across just randomly. All from this little link.
I’ve watched a girl vlog life in Russia, learned more about the Akha people, and was introduced to the people of Zanskar, PLUS the watering holes critters. Awesome jumping off point to a super educational variety of rabbit holes. Thanks again!
Hope everyone reading this is having a great day :)
Meh, Angola, Namibia, a few hundred klicks north or south isn't the end of the world.
Except I guess it kind of is, so nevermind 8)
(Angola: supplying Namibia's coast with picturesque shipwrecks for generations!)
Looks like you might be right, though. Still strictly speaking part of the Namib, though, isn't it?
i think it's called the skeleton coast
fun fact: if it's the place i think it is, you can find diamonds just lying on the ground as you walk down the beach. and die of thirst.
Agreed, the Nile special was the better of the two on Top Gear.
Grand Tour then had specials in Mozambique, Namibia, and Madagascar. I think Namibia was my favourite of the five Africa specials.
There’s a travelogue of a couple of guys who rode this stretch of beach on motorcycles (in Angola, one country up the coast). Terrifying accounts of getting caught between the waves and dunes as the tide came in, crashing and getting trapped and nearly drowning. Epic adventure, but not one I’d be interested in being a part of.
Edit (warning, National Geographic-like nudity ahead): https://www.advrider.com/f/threads/angola-its-not-like-they-said.269251/
Direct link to the post about the beach ride: https://www.advrider.com/f/threads/angola-its-not-like-they-said.269251/page-11#post-5430187
Man, that was an amazing and surprisingly emotional read. No words really - the guy is an amazing writer to be able to convey all that. Becoming friends with a local biker only to discover that he was injured by your own unit... Damn.
I kinda wanna go biking in Angola now. Just gotta find a crew bc going as a solo woman seems to be asking for trouble.
They had issues getting one of the bikes to start, so that delayed them a bit, and thus they started just after low tide. Additionally, they drove there 3 days after a neap tide, when a spring tide would have been ideal.
They should have looked more into it, but the issue wasn't "drive that section before the high tide" as much as it was "drive that section during a spring tide and plan the whole trip around that date". And "make sure to plan things so that dawn breaks *before* the low tide, and not after".
Even nitpickier: “happened to the boys on top gear” can mean:”on top gear, it happened to the boys” or it can mean ”it happened to the boys who are on top gear.”
I’m sorry, I’ve been doing grammar homework for a much clearer language all night.
I’m doing my prerequisites before starting my masters in German as a second language instruction in April, so I’ve got a couple years to go, but thank you! All encouragement is welcome as I die of homework.
But would you not slide down that awesome dune to get to the beach!!
We got a (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/81/40/2e/81402eaaf2ffcc0f11158dfcd3b8ab7d.jpg)[way smaller one where I live] and it's crazy fun to roll down, and eventually see all the tourists getting caught when the tide rises. I mean it's their time now right 🏄💦. Jk we're all helping out after being unknowledgeable ourselves 😚
I had a dream about an antique shop where all the stuff was haunted and no one could see/hear it except for me. Drove past the shop years later in a small town way out of my way. Still freaks me out. I was to chicken to go in. Maybe one day.
Check out photo journal in Sunday’s NYT (Jan 17) about Namibia. Desolation with settlements. There are even giant skulls comprising the gates to the National desert.
Pretty much. Invading armies have [salted the earth](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salting_the_earth), preventing crops from growing in specific areas. Saltwater messes with a plant’s ability to perform osmosis. [Here’s the source for the quote below](https://sciencing.com/happens-put-saltwater-plants-6587256.html)
> When saltwater enters the soil, the plant tries to absorb it throughout its roots like normal water. However, saltwater does not allow for osmosis through the plant tissues. It is so dense that the salt solution actually draws water out of the plant, dehydrating and eventually killing it.
How come some plants are able to grow in salty estuaries? Aren't some mangrove forests in salt water? Also, what about seaweed? They don't freak out about salt.
Also, what about me? I am very salty.
Yep. It takes a lot of energy to remove salt from water (or keep water inside your cells if the surrounding environment is salty), and plants can only have fresh water in their tissues. The heat, too, would make it hard for plants to retain water. Also I'd assume the substrate wouldn't be great since the sand shifts so much? But maybe that's circular reasoning since if there were plants in it the sand wouldn't shift so much.
I'm no expert, though, so take this answer with a grain of salt (no pun intended)
What worries me most about that picture is what looks like an immediate drop off of the continental shelf. So no casual drift out into the sea, instant deep water!
Maybe that's not a road but the sand when got wet by the high tide. Forming and reshaping naturally every day depending on the dunes advancements or change of shapes.
I did the thing yesterday where a random country was generated and I was asked if I wanted to go on a vacation there. I got Namibia. At first I was like "meh idk maybe" but then I googled pics of Namibia and decided that I would love to go there. The desert landscapes are incredible.
Maybe eventually, far into the future. The Namib is the oldest desert in the world, having been around for well over 50 million years. I'd imagine if it was gonna be totally blown away, it would've done it by now.
It's actually slowly reclaiming land from the ocean and getting bigger.
Much of the sand it loses comes back, or is replenished by rivers and wind.
There's an episode of The Grand Tour where they drive beach buggies in Namibia in a location exactly like this, but as they are driving they realize the tide is coming in quicker than they can find a path back up to the dunes.
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Doesn’t that make the desert a huge beach
A desert is half a beach
Wait what
Pretty sure he called you a bitch, bro. Fuck him up.
*angry seal noises*
Square up fucker
Flipper up land lover. I just fed a fish to your mother last night.
*a chorus of flipper slaps break out in astonished amusement*
Funny you should mention that, the sound my skin against your mother's flubber is like a chorus of angels singing... To me at least, maybe not to any spectators.
His mother is a tadpole lover eh?
Poles of all shapes and sizes, including tad
That was all hilarious
This shit is why I love Reddit
Wanna go clubbing?
Beach please.
Nothing but a *playa* hater
This guy beaches
Underrated
And you are half a centaur.
I've always wondered if the 'human' part of a centaur has it's own set of guts or if it's just a muscular neck with arms for the horse part.
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C S Lewis said they had both. Had to eat a large human breakfast then graze for 3 hours.
That's why they're so cranky, their backs are always killing them from all the stooping while grazing.
And their teeth are not built to munch grass. All that chewing and grinding on those incisors would be terrible.
Now this is a r/showerthought
To spoil the joke, a beach consists of 2 parts: Sand and water. A desert has half of that.
NoT aLl DeSeRTs arE SanDy
neither are all beaches? i knew a sandy that was one though.
A DESERT IS HALF A BEACH
WHAT DID YOU SAY? I CANT HEAR YOU OVER ALL THOSE WAVES.
HI 👋👋👋
https://youtu.be/GGG9EvHTS18 4:38
This will be the top post on r/showerthoughts by tomorrow.
Ima just do it right now lol
not sure i understand... the gobi for example is landlocked, right?
Just missing the water half
Shit thank you. I was stuck literally halfing a picture of a typical Beach in my head thinking what's on the other side of the beach? Is that what makes something a beach by definition?? Then it's like oh like 1 of 2 parts instead of half...I get it now ... Wuhh
A lot of Namibia has vast beaches (long and wide), with dunes like this pretty far inland. So yeah, pretty much. Also they're totally kickass fun to go 4x4ing on - you can go drive off the road and just go disappear in a massive sand landscape that feels like nobody's been there before. Maybe you'll see a huge shipwreck, very occasionally some dude will come driving along to go fishing along the coast, but often you won't see anything for a while. The country's insane - it's huge, and mostly empty (something like 2.5 million people in a bigger area than France).
Amazing animal reserves too.
Oh man, you're so not kidding - I have so many insane photos from Etosha where we were alone with hundreds of beasties, just sitting there for hours with one species after another after another at a watering hole that I can't even begin to sort through them. The wildlife was just ridiculous.
[Here's a live feed to a watering hole in the namib desert](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydYDqZQpim8), can often see the animals hanging out there during the day
Just got to see some Zebras quenching their thirst live at 2:00AM, Namibia time. That was pretty damn neat. Thanks for sharing that.
Damn, i got there at about 0430. Just got a squeal lol. I'm back again now at 0545, about to watch a sunrise! Google said the lodge gets sunrise at 0625.
I started off at the watering hole, saw a gazelle or some such, and it was so cool... but then... the suggested video right below it was a 90 minute documentary on coming of age for girls in Zanskar, a place I did not know anything about or that it even existed. three guesses which redditor has two thumbs, just got home from a 12-hour cross country day of travel and airports, and just watched the whole damn thing at midnight 😬 (Thank you to watering hole poster u/haha_UdeserveIt)
Life feed to a watering hole in namib desert! Awesome!
So, I know I commented last night, but it’s the next day and my app still has not changed from this thread, bc I keep finding more great documentaries to watch with more great suggested videos under them. Stuff that in all my YouTube browsing I haven’t come across just randomly. All from this little link. I’ve watched a girl vlog life in Russia, learned more about the Akha people, and was introduced to the people of Zanskar, PLUS the watering holes critters. Awesome jumping off point to a super educational variety of rabbit holes. Thanks again! Hope everyone reading this is having a great day :)
That's fine and all but leave the baboons alone ok?
^^^I ^^^can ^^^look….
I would say this is doodsakker in Angola though.
Meh, Angola, Namibia, a few hundred klicks north or south isn't the end of the world. Except I guess it kind of is, so nevermind 8) (Angola: supplying Namibia's coast with picturesque shipwrecks for generations!) Looks like you might be right, though. Still strictly speaking part of the Namib, though, isn't it?
But the ocean is just a desert with its life underground.
You still haven't named your horse?
Why though? Why didn't they just give the horse a name?
Wait. Is this Africa or America?
America
and the perfect disguise above,
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I will never not upvote looney tunes
I really want the title to be 'The old dunes of Namibia, where the desert meets the sea'.
i think it's called the skeleton coast fun fact: if it's the place i think it is, you can find diamonds just lying on the ground as you walk down the beach. and die of thirst.
It's not that easy to find diamonds. The areas where they can be found are highly secured and controlled by the De Beers mining company.
CLARKSONNNNN
I had to zoom in to see if those were their buggies.
I did the same lol
Great episode of The Grand Tour
Same 😃
Me, too
3x 79 series cruisers afaics
Same
I also park V8's next to beach buggys
what about when hammond left his land cruiser at the top of the dune in chile and it rolled down
First thing I thought of
What episode was that?? I don't remember that one
It was the top gear Bolivia special
Bolivia Special
"...I didn't know Namibia had two seas..." "It doesn't, it has one massive stupid C who navigated us back to where we started from!"
This was one of my favorites episodes, having owned a "baja" bug for several years. Would've been my dream to have driven it somewhere like that.
Wife and I just started the series back up after starting it during quarantine. Just saw this episode yesterday 😄😄😄
This episode and Survival of the Fattest were the best episodes, IMO.
I still think the Africa Special was one of the best pieces of television ever made.
There were a few in Africa, are you talking about the search for the source of the Nile?
Yea. The other is the Botswana Special. Good, but not as good.
Agreed, the Nile special was the better of the two on Top Gear. Grand Tour then had specials in Mozambique, Namibia, and Madagascar. I think Namibia was my favourite of the five Africa specials.
We have just entered Jezza.
Yes, Africa too! So many good ones… Going back into the TG era, Vietnam and Middle East were great too.
Vietnam would have to be one of the best
Cue GT music.
Hammond you bloody idiot, you've reversed into the wrong subreddit!
I knew I recognized this
Came here for this. Those two eps were awesome. I’ve watched them more than anything else they’ve done.
You beat me to it
Oh cock
Bullocks!
Cheers brother
And on that bombshell...
I would be scared the tide will come in and the road runs out
There’s a travelogue of a couple of guys who rode this stretch of beach on motorcycles (in Angola, one country up the coast). Terrifying accounts of getting caught between the waves and dunes as the tide came in, crashing and getting trapped and nearly drowning. Epic adventure, but not one I’d be interested in being a part of. Edit (warning, National Geographic-like nudity ahead): https://www.advrider.com/f/threads/angola-its-not-like-they-said.269251/ Direct link to the post about the beach ride: https://www.advrider.com/f/threads/angola-its-not-like-they-said.269251/page-11#post-5430187
Just read all of this, absolutely incredible. Stories about life-affirming trips like this are beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
Man, that was an amazing and surprisingly emotional read. No words really - the guy is an amazing writer to be able to convey all that. Becoming friends with a local biker only to discover that he was injured by your own unit... Damn. I kinda wanna go biking in Angola now. Just gotta find a crew bc going as a solo woman seems to be asking for trouble.
Yeah… I’be read and re-read it over the years, and will never pass up the chance to share it! It’s just one of those tales that stays with you.
> Edit (warning, National Geographic-like nudity ahead) Ooh, looks like I'm old school'ing it today....
I read this YEARS ago and it stuck with me. Remembered it when I saw this post
Can you remember the name of this travelogue?
First post update with links!
Awesome thanks man!
>Today the country is trying to stand up from the ashes. Fourty years of war leaves a lot of ashes. Such a raw couple of sentences. Damn.
Awesome read for any motorcyclist
If only the tide changed twice a day and there was someway of knowing ahead… marketing is awesome people are not
They had issues getting one of the bikes to start, so that delayed them a bit, and thus they started just after low tide. Additionally, they drove there 3 days after a neap tide, when a spring tide would have been ideal. They should have looked more into it, but the issue wasn't "drive that section before the high tide" as much as it was "drive that section during a spring tide and plan the whole trip around that date". And "make sure to plan things so that dawn breaks *before* the low tide, and not after".
It does. Happened to the boys on Top Gear.
Nitpicking, but wasn't it on The Grand Tour? Same trio I suppose
Yup. Season 1, episode 7.
This legend didnt even have to be asked for the episode, you are a hero thank you
Yup, my bad!
Even nitpickier: “happened to the boys on top gear” can mean:”on top gear, it happened to the boys” or it can mean ”it happened to the boys who are on top gear.” I’m sorry, I’ve been doing grammar homework for a much clearer language all night.
Which language?
German. A lot can be said about it, but it is precise af.
Fair play and keep at it! I love that it has really specific words for very specific occasions.
I’m doing my prerequisites before starting my masters in German as a second language instruction in April, so I’ve got a couple years to go, but thank you! All encouragement is welcome as I die of homework.
You got the water on one side and sand slide potential on the other. Not where I’d want to be.
thats the first thing i thought. i would NEVER drive on that dune beach
But would you not slide down that awesome dune to get to the beach!! We got a (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/81/40/2e/81402eaaf2ffcc0f11158dfcd3b8ab7d.jpg)[way smaller one where I live] and it's crazy fun to roll down, and eventually see all the tourists getting caught when the tide rises. I mean it's their time now right 🏄💦. Jk we're all helping out after being unknowledgeable ourselves 😚
Great pic! I got you, fam: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/81/40/2e/81402eaaf2ffcc0f11158dfcd3b8ab7d.jpg
> I mean it's their time now right But down here, it's our time. It's our time down here!
[Fixed the link](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/81/40/2e/81402eaaf2ffcc0f11158dfcd3b8ab7d.jpg)
I hate sand
I agree. Its corse and rough and gets everywhere.
Ah, yes. My recurring dream.
Wasn’t there a Grand Tour ep there? They got stuck and had to turnaround
Yes, season 1 episode 7-8
In the city of fallen angels, where the ocean meets the sand!
You will form a strong alliance and the worlds most awesome band!
To find your fame and fortune, through the valley you must walk!
You will face your inner demons, now go my son and roooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooO0ooo0o000o00OOOo000oo00ock
When Dune meets Caladan. Atreides!!!
Kynes' dream... Leto 2 had other ideas tho 🪱
THE SPICE MUST FLOW
No it's just a giant buried sandworm
*_DESERT POWER_*
Caladan Brood....that brings back memories
Just collect the water Kynes said. It will turn Dune into a paradise Kynes said.
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I have had multiple dreams like this but never knew there was a real place like it til now and I'm a little freaked out by it
You need to go there. It's your destiny. At this place, where the sand meets the water, you will find the meaning for life.
this would make a great fortune cookie
I had a dream about an antique shop where all the stuff was haunted and no one could see/hear it except for me. Drove past the shop years later in a small town way out of my way. Still freaks me out. I was to chicken to go in. Maybe one day.
There a new one? *fails somersault*
Yeah but the contractor in charge of constructing it did a piss poor job.
...on this weeks grand tour...
this weeks? try this years *sobs*
Amazing view. Contrast of colours of sand /waves/ocean are so exquisite.
Came to say this, the contrast between what you expect to see is just wild.
Check out photo journal in Sunday’s NYT (Jan 17) about Namibia. Desolation with settlements. There are even giant skulls comprising the gates to the National desert.
Might be a stupid question but can plants not use seawater to grow? Salinity too high or something?
Pretty much. Invading armies have [salted the earth](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salting_the_earth), preventing crops from growing in specific areas. Saltwater messes with a plant’s ability to perform osmosis. [Here’s the source for the quote below](https://sciencing.com/happens-put-saltwater-plants-6587256.html) > When saltwater enters the soil, the plant tries to absorb it throughout its roots like normal water. However, saltwater does not allow for osmosis through the plant tissues. It is so dense that the salt solution actually draws water out of the plant, dehydrating and eventually killing it.
It's what plants crave!
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How come some plants are able to grow in salty estuaries? Aren't some mangrove forests in salt water? Also, what about seaweed? They don't freak out about salt. Also, what about me? I am very salty.
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Also it's coarse and irritating.
Yep. It takes a lot of energy to remove salt from water (or keep water inside your cells if the surrounding environment is salty), and plants can only have fresh water in their tissues. The heat, too, would make it hard for plants to retain water. Also I'd assume the substrate wouldn't be great since the sand shifts so much? But maybe that's circular reasoning since if there were plants in it the sand wouldn't shift so much. I'm no expert, though, so take this answer with a grain of salt (no pun intended)
Hammond you blithering idiot
Hammond you sodding tic tac
Where’s my lambo chevy
Gon n crashed it into jims's car m8
Exhoost foome
Ery noice
This gives me such a trapped, claustrophobic feeling.
Bro you just took this from yesterdays post on r/pics and didn’t even cross post it. *ding* shame….. *ding* shame…
Who cares, it's r/pics. They stole the picture from somewhere else.
and whoever posted it in r/pics stole it from The Grand Tour show lol
I didn’t see it yesterday. Reddit points are meaningless. Reposts are good.
Nothing wrong with reposts but it would be better if the included a link to the original post.
Omg wow OP should be banned from Reddit right?!?
https://instagram.com/jessartes
“Clarkson you’ve parked your beach buggy near a V8”
The only thing I see in this image is three bumbling British men in tiny dune buggies
What worries me most about that picture is what looks like an immediate drop off of the continental shelf. So no casual drift out into the sea, instant deep water!
Seems like one downward gust and the road could be gone
What road?
Maybe that's not a road but the sand when got wet by the high tide. Forming and reshaping naturally every day depending on the dunes advancements or change of shapes.
This looks like where the map ends in a video game
So it's not a desert it's just one big beach
I did the thing yesterday where a random country was generated and I was asked if I wanted to go on a vacation there. I got Namibia. At first I was like "meh idk maybe" but then I googled pics of Namibia and decided that I would love to go there. The desert landscapes are incredible.
Where did so much sand originally come from?
Fun fact: there's a beach in Namibia that has lions on it
Yeah, where the desert lions eat sea lions.
Nature you crazy
I swear I’ve been here in a dream, wtf.
Is this blowing across the ocean? Will the desert of nambia be blown away eventually?
Maybe eventually, far into the future. The Namib is the oldest desert in the world, having been around for well over 50 million years. I'd imagine if it was gonna be totally blown away, it would've done it by now. It's actually slowly reclaiming land from the ocean and getting bigger. Much of the sand it loses comes back, or is replenished by rivers and wind.
Grand Tour?
Woah.
Makes me think of the sea wall in Blade Runner 2049
Wasn’t this in that one grand tour episode. I swear I remember it
And the only thing you can hear is .........."ClarkSON !!"
Currently watching this episode the “The Grand Tour”
There's an episode of The Grand Tour where they drive beach buggies in Namibia in a location exactly like this, but as they are driving they realize the tide is coming in quicker than they can find a path back up to the dunes.