Share a photo of ruins, a desolate place or your idea of a wasteland is the task for this week’s WordPress Challenge.
There’s a desolate poetry to the extraordinary landscape of the Namib Naukluft desert. Here in the section, between the Kuiseb and Swakop rivers, the vast quartzite gravel plains rise up to badlands and the rugged Naukluft Mountains run along the eastern edge of the desert. It is a strange land, of boundless expanses and repeating horizons. Although it seems barren and lifeless, fauna and flora have adapted perfectly to its harsh regime. Come the rains and the dry plains are filled with waving grasses which bring the herds of antelope to graze the ephemeral pastures.
Nature on the Edge 
You’re making me jealous, I’d love to see the Namib!
🙂 Hope your wish comes true, Gilly. It’s all encompassing with it’s vast sea of dunes, gravel plains… magical place.
Yep. That’s abandoned.
….. and nothing moved, not a soul!!
“Waving grasses and herds of antelope.” What a sight that would be! Nice shot, Liz.
It’s an amazing transformation 🙂 Hard to believe that there’s life contained in that barreness; rains, the lifegiving form.
A beautiful shot Liz and so perfectly positioned by your text to meet the challenge. Really nicely done.
Thanks Tina; i like the variety that comes out of a broad topic like this one 🙂