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Ricof4e
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Ruacana falls

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I was there with the family on Sunday. I'll let the pictures do thier own talking
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Thanks for sharing.

I was last there in 89 wearing a brown suit and traveling in a 6x6.
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Amazing to see the falls like that. Thanks.

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Wow , must have had plenty rain. Nice pics !

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Magnificent!

You are extremely fortunate to see such once in a life time events (for most of us)!

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The South of Angola is expecting some heavy rains in the next two weeks, so too the north of Namibia.

I'll see if I can go back in two weeks time to take a few more pics - I reckon the falls would be 20-30% greater then.
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Heavy rains turn these waterfalls to torrents
... even the little spruit at Joburg Botanics ...

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Chas, I live near the Walter Sisulu Botamical Gardens.

We recieved 136mm in 24 hours.
That's when that video of the waterfall was taken.

Probably gets that much water 2 or 3 times a decade....
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... what amazes me is that this feeding ‘spruit’
only starts from a spring about 3km upstream
... as far as I can see from google maps ...

( think its source of Croc River ... ? )

... I’ve got a L-Rover ... so ...
I can go and check sometime ...
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