Orange River and Vaal River Confluence by Drone
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- čas přidán 9. 10. 2022
- South Africa's two greatest rivers, the Vaal and the Orange converge just outside the small town of Douglas in the Northern Cape. Here's some drone footage from a visit I paid a visit there earlier this year. Both rivers were very full, notice the difference in colour and also how much slower the Vaal's flow is than the Orange.
From here, South Africa's longest river still has another 900 km before it reaches the Atlantic ocean at Alexander Bay, on the border with Namibia.
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great footage man.thank you
It’s a pleasure Sobhuza, thanks for taking the time to comment.
Awesome. Brings back memories. Beautiful video
Thank you Bryan.
Keep doing this.. it's great!!
Many thanks, I sure hope to continue making these videos.
Incredible stuff
Thank you 🙏
Awesome bru... as usual bring great viewing.
Thanks for the feedback, I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Lovely.
It sure is.
Very interesting to see. I've been there years ago (lived in Upington) but drones didn't exist yet.
Drones have made it possible for us ordinary, non pilot, folks to see the world in a totally different way, that's for sure.
Lots of precious sediment to further enrich the alluvial soil.
Perfect nature at work.
Lief wat jy doen... mense ken maar min van die beautiful land wat ons in woon...
Dankie Christa 🙏
Gaan jy weer vir ons n video opsit as die riviere afkom die naweek?
Hello Dalene, I don't live in the area, so don't think I would be able to get there this year, but who knows, I will certainly try.
What is the fishing like at the confluence?
I haven't fished there, but when the river isn't so high I imagine the fishing would be quite good.
Bruh give some information about Kalahari desert
Love from India 🙂
That will be a pleasure, it's one of my favourite places in Africa, have a look at this video (part 1 of 2): czcams.com/video/OTp0KBlomKw/video.html
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My pet peeve is when South Africans don't properly pronunciate. Saw a video yesterday where an Afrikaans guy mispronounced Vaal (pale) River. It is pronounced as Faal or Phaal, not Waal. Names have meaning and some not even trying to pronunciate won't be excused. The Anglicised version typically is just very wrong and condescending, often showing disrespect to indigenous people. This is a general observation and I hope that some reader learns something today.
Ja well no fine 😉
It is actually an Afrikaans word.. derived from Dutch .. Vaal with an "f" sound and aaaah with L at the end😅...
Vaal meaning light brown.. I remember covering school books in primary school with "vaal papier" .. brown paper.. as in brown paper bags?
I always wondered as a child why "vaal" .. as in my child mind vaal (colour) actually was the Afrikaans word for the colour grey... Later it changed to "grys".. which was more spot on. Now? 2023? 73 years old? I would not DARE name a colour... they have all these fancy names for them now.. 😅🤣😂
@@christajordaan7432 Thanks for your contribution Christa 🙏
Theses are Lekoa and Senqu. I don't care what colonial names they are given period
And we don't care what you think either.