Tag:desert
The photo below is part of our ‘Front Crew’ waiting for another load of geophones, cables and boxes to be delivered.
Following on from yesterday’s Land Rover shadow shot is today’s shot of our playing follow the leader as we race the setting sun on our way back to camp.
I took this photo of the shadow of our Land Rover on this sunset drive back to camp. We always wanted to be back in camp by sundown. Dusk only lasted about 30 minutes and the desert at night is even more deceiving that it is during the day!
I titled today’s photo ‘Checkpoint Wadi’ because when we moved into this concession in western Libya in 1990, this was one of the few routes for travelers to traverse the escarpment.
I passed these desert enclosures on the way back to camp one evening. Typically you wanted to be back in camp before sundown as sundown to darkness only took about 30 minutes. While the desert is deceiving during the day, it’s doubly or more so at night.
So here’s a wider shot of the end of the line. Well, not the end actually, more of a hiatus. The line continued up here on the top of the escarpment but all the trucks had to drive around to the nearest wadi or road we cut that provided access.
