This sweet fog was pouring off of the plateau to the east of us and evaporating as it fell down the slope.
Cool sinuous dune running along side of other ones north of the road.
Hiking the big dune east of Dead Vlei.
Shot looking down into the dead-tree end of Dead Vlei.
Dead Vlei at left, "deader vlei" into which we ventured later at right.
Lots of these crazy dendritic flow patterns at the edges of Dead Vlei.
Small panorama looking back north.
Ralph Lorenz
Karl takes off trying to scale Big Daddy.
Giant Vlei panorama!
Alex Hayes
Many dendritic networks.
I kinda liked the shadows that Clay, Jani, and Alex cast here.
Heading down the side of the dune into Dead Vlei
Alex tried to body-surf his way down to the bottom. Bad idea, it turned out -- very little surfing occurred, but sand got everywhere!
Alex performs a biologically-based composition test -- not salty.
Down on the vlei.
Jani, Clay, Alex.
Dendritics, close-up.
Jani Radebaugh
Clay
This is "deader vlei", down from Dead Vlei.
Crossbedded sand underneath deader vlei.
The crew, heading back to the car to make it before our ride left.
Ripply dune side.
Alex Hayes and ripples.
Open-air 4WD for last few miles into Sossusvlei, with driver.
Syncline, at twilight.