When you visit a landscape your eyes look at it as it is now and sometimes it is difficult and very awe-inspiring to think about how it might have been thousands of years before your footsteps left a temporary trail across the dry sand and rock.

This picture was taken very close to the famous “White Lady of Brandberg”, more of which I will write about in a future story and shows an eroded rock that looks as though a waterfall has poured over it for a very long time.

Our lives are very short in the scheme of Earths passage through space and time and when you are standing in the hot dry air of this mountain in Namibia, surrounded by the paintings and extinct culture of a branch of our species, the very idea of this landscape every having running water beggars belief!. But this white rock once had flowing water running over it, it was a waterfall from a time when there was more rain falling onto this part of the Earth than falls now.

When the Bushmen were living and painting here the landscape would have been greener, with a plentiful supply of animals for them to hunt and paint. It is possible to imagine a group sitting quietly chatting as humans do under the shade of a tree while the water flows gently by.