Few sights take your breath away and are as tremendous or a sound as deafening as water plunging down the 56-m Augrabies Waterfall when the Orange River is in flood. Indeed, the recent heavy rainfall in the Northern Cape helped the ‘Place of Great Noise’ live up to its Khoi San name, 'Aukoerebis'.
When we heard this was happening, we managed to fit in 3 nights in the Augrabies National Park near Kakamas and it was overwhelming to observe this vast amount of water roaring furiously down the narrow gorge and increasing in volume every day. Fantastically scary, a total adrenalin rush before 7am when we watched the sunrise over the canyon, filtering its golden light through the mist. We were equally seduced by the rapidly changing movements of the water which was unnervingly pulling us in.
Guy looked so small in front of this raging river on the platform ahead of me.
Watching the colourful Bradley’s flat lizards performing acrobatic leaps on the steep rock faces to catch black flies was most entertaining. We explored this rugged rocky region, were particularly fascinated by the geology of Echo Corner and found ourselves at Ararat’s grand vista for sunset when the last light played on the water at the bottom of the gorge in shimmery shades of silver and pink.
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