Camping at Vogelvederberg
The weekend was our camp at Vogelvederberg. As the second full moon of October 2020, it is something called a blue moon. Now, a full moon in the desert is always a nice thing. Always.
A while ago Awesome Chapters started advertising camping trips, and we have had no responses on it yet. Not a single one. This is with incredibly low prices, and our wonderful selves. Surely other people must be doing camping wrong? Who would not want to drive out for a little while and go have a fun night under the stars. Are we missing something?
The decision was made to take two hapless people out for a camp and film it so that we can have PROOF that this is a good idea. 🙂 So, who do we drag along? It can’t be our close friends, as that would appear biased. So, in order to get a couple of people that at least have some similar interests Awesome Chapters decided to run the following ad on Facebook:
Throughout October the turnout was meager, but there was enough interest to claim a winner, and so our plans went ahead. Sam Wester and Bernette Louw were absolute treats to have on the camp, and we might go camping again with them just for the hell of it. As serious photographers, the photos of the camp were pretty epic, and was shared on a Google Album
Of course, that’s not the real reason the camp was done… It was to get a video to really capture the spirit of the thing. A lot of footage was taken, and after a few days of editing, the result of the camp were as follows:
Other videos released during week 45
The Mondesa Youth Opportunities video was finally done. It was made to the exact specifications of the Mondesa Youth Opportunities, with frequent sharing of the test video through WhatsApp for fine tuning.
Express Services corporate video.
This one was a lot of fun to make, as we went out to all the interesting places, and got great amounts of seriously cool footage.
Images posted on Facebook:
There is of course a whole album of all the nice photos of the Vogels camping trip on the internet, but that does not stop the sharing of a few select ones to Facebook directly!
These clouds were a total bonus, normally the skies are cloudless and blue. Not that it detracts from camping here at all, it’s just something different.
You can see how dry this part of the world is. The little black spots are grass. Quite interestingly, though, with a bit of rain, this entire place changes into verdant fields of fresh grass almost overnight.
The grass dies out pretty quickly as there is no regular rain to sustain it. Once it’s dead it first turns yellow and makes for the most beautiful pictures.
After a while the yellow turns grey and the grass slowly disintegrates until there is nothing left except for the barren gravel of the Namib
Coulds are a much more common occurrence near Walvis Bay, because there is an interplay of the cold air from the ocean and the hot air from the desert. It also makes the weather notoriously difficult to predict.
True champions of survival, these plants grow year after year, through droughts and rainy seasons until they are big and strong. These trees are already a few decades old. When camping in this location, one really can get the best of the golden hour and this awesome landscape.
