#singing sands

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Up the Bruce to Singing Sands

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[shortvisualstories]

Jacob Kirkegaard’s project ‘Nagaras’ – capturing momentary visual fragments of millions of sand grains which in joint rapid movement create a rare sonic phenomenon ‘The Singing Sands’.

“Nagaras (“drum”) aims to portray a rare phenomenon that exists in very few deserts around the world. At times, some sand dunes in these deserts can produce deep mysterious humming sounds. The phenomenon is known as the Singing Sands or Booming Dunes. Over the last thousand years the phenomenon has been described by travelers, most famously by Marco Polo. “Nagaras” is a word which by several travelers was used to describe the phenomenon.”

[ruthlivingstone]

395 Singing Sands (Gortenfern) to Arivegaig

395 Singing Sands (Gortenfern) to Arivegaig

[This walk was completed on Tuesday 7th May 2019]

I park in a little carpark at the end of the public road near Arivegaig, Kentra Bay. It’s only 8 miles to Ockle, says a footpath sign, but I’m not going as far as that. Just back to the Singing Sands at Gortenfern to pick up my walk where I left off yesterday.

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[ruthlivingstone]

394 Ockle to Singing Sands (Gortenfern)

394 Ockle to Singing Sands (Gortenfern)

[This walk was completed on Monday 6th May 2019]

I drive down the winding single-track road to Ockle (love that name!), where I park at the end of the road, next to a car and an old boat.

It’s a beautiful day. Blue skies and a cool breeze. Perfect walking weather. I follow the farm track up the hill, where a farmer is shooing his sheep into a field. (more…)

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the wind is gone by Stacey Kinkaid

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Sunset at the Khongoryn Els (Singing Sands), Gobi Desert by Marco Fieber