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This was our usual day setup. Morning start just before first sunlight. Pack up camp and head to the next waypoint (18km distance between the waypoints) where we would stop and have our breakfast, waiting for Max to arrive and give us the OK to continue. At the following waypoint we would go firm and prep our day camp, deploy our solar charging gear.
Here's max having a break from the sun. Temperatures would reach almost 40 degrees (Celcius) during the day and then crash to 2 degrees during the night. I personally have never experience that sort of change in temperatures ever!
On one of the nights just as we were about to set up camp, we encountered a severe sand storm. Nothing anyone of us had ever see before. It was so strong that it had actually blown the sand away from under our cars and caused them to tilt.
Will was almost buried by the sand in his swag. This was after we dug him out.
And then there's the sand....power soft in places (the quick sand as the locals call it) which you can't see or tell. You're driving along and all of a sudden...you start to loose power and you feel as though you're driving through thick mud rather than floating on top of sand. If you weren't on your A-Game and put your foot to the floor, you would end up like this:
Here's max having a break from the sun. Temperatures would reach almost 40 degrees (Celcius) during the day and then crash to 2 degrees during the night. I personally have never experience that sort of change in temperatures ever!
On one of the nights just as we were about to set up camp, we encountered a severe sand storm. Nothing anyone of us had ever see before. It was so strong that it had actually blown the sand away from under our cars and caused them to tilt.
Will was almost buried by the sand in his swag. This was after we dug him out.
And then there's the sand....power soft in places (the quick sand as the locals call it) which you can't see or tell. You're driving along and all of a sudden...you start to loose power and you feel as though you're driving through thick mud rather than floating on top of sand. If you weren't on your A-Game and put your foot to the floor, you would end up like this:
