I am a rain god. I’ve suspected it for many years – most of my hikes are in the wet, the Australian drought broke temporarily whenever I came home and it’s been raining half the time since I moved back. But I wasn’t really sure until it rained on my first day in the Sahara.<\/p>\n
We had lunch at the family home of our guide, just south of M’Hamid under warm, blue skies. The afternoon walk to our campsite was only a couple of hours long, but during that time the sky grew dark. The first pass was just a light sprinkle, but when the wind turned, those same clouds dumped hail and a soaking rain on us for half an hour. The wind turned again, ready for a third pass, but that seemed to be all the Sahara could handle in one week and the clouds broke up.<\/p>\n
I’m glad to say that the new camel hair Jalaha I bought for the safari valiently held off the worst of the wind and rain and quickly dried by the fire that night. It wasn’t enough, even with 2 blankets, to keep me warm enough to sleep as the sand released its moisture all night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am a rain god. I’ve suspected it for many years – most of my hikes are in the wet, the Australian drought broke temporarily whenever I came home and it’s been raining half the time since I moved back. But I wasn’t really sure until it rained on my first day in the Sahara.… Continue reading Wet Desert<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}