#4: Filming in the KAOKOVELD DESERT of Namibia

It's exciting to start the process of learning to film in my new 'home' in the Kunene/Kaokoveld Desert area of Namibia as I unbox all of my new camera gear and struggle to get going... From humble beginnings great things can grow! But can I learn to film from scratch in such a harsh environment?
This is the story of a year long LD stay in Namibia..... with you in the passenger seat!
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[@roamingyak]

Are you enjoying the channel so far?! If so, let me know where in this beautiful world your watching it from!

[@nikokisting6189]

Me and Archie are wathcing from Namibia, our home country, the most beautiful country in the whole world, in our opinion. We also happen to be campers, so we especially enjoy watching your films.

[@roamingyak]

Apologies I didn't reply last time around Niko (and Archie!)... I agree, such a wonderful, unique and interesting place - the sea fog on the coast always amuses me :-) I hope you enjoy the latest video too: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hImrYYxuht2mqNE

[@ZARRugby]

Watching from Canada and missing Africa. Last trip was 2022 to Namibia. Can't wait to go back. Thanks for the memories.

[@roamingyak]

Thanks Patrick, your welcome, and always nice to hear from Canada! :-)

[@robdotcom71]

G'day Darrin I'm from Adelaide. Having bingewatched Itchy boots and nearly run out of things to watch before I came across your channel. Africa is one place that always fascinated me... I'd love to go one of these days... I like your humour and your storytelling... Subbed.

[@roamingyak]

Cool, thanks for stopping by and checking out my channel, and also leaving a comment comment, greatly appreciated. Hopefully I'll see you in Africa one day ;-)

[@stuartrollings602]

Very nice video Big D! The Kiwi spirit lives on! Stuart from Texas here…look forward to the next adventure!

[@roamingyak]

Thanks! Glad to see you are bing enjoying the whole series 😀😃😄

[@AlexTackie]

Visited Namibia last December and its so fa my fav country, love your content and i cant wait to return and explore Perros and many other places

[@roamingyak]

Thanks mate!

[@raykreisel]

Hello from California. What a great video. Thanks so much for sharing. I feeling like I am traveling alongside you.

[@roamingyak]

Thanks Ray, thats what I am aiming for, so nice to hear that I'm achieving it a little bit.

[@victoriacrabtree8946]

A fellow Kiwi watching from the Southern Highlands of NSW, Australia. Your videos are so amazing to watch, a very raw take on how Covid is affecting other people and nations but you are undeterred by what life throws at you. You are in my favourite country in my favourite vehicle and thoroughly enjoying your adventure in life. I look forward to many more videos on the channel. Stay safe🇳🇦🇳🇿

[@roamingyak]

Ah, gidday Victoria, nice to hear from you and thanks very much for your nice words, its a lot of effort to present it all for others, easier for me to just sit on the footage and memories for myself, but hearing how others enjoy it spurs me on ;) Sorry for losing most of my Kiwi accent, I've been a long lost Kiwi for a few decades now, but still very much a Northland boy at heart ;)

[@victoriacrabtree8946]

@@roamingyak My accent is also faint after many years wandering the globe. If you are not able to access online coverage, the All Blacks are leading the Wallabies 16-8 at half time in the Bledisloe 1!

[@victoriacrabtree8946]

And it is an All Black win tonight 33-25😁

[@roamingyak]

@@victoriacrabtree8946 Why did we let them score 25 points?!! Standards are slipping

[@roamingyak]

@@victoriacrabtree8946 We are still Kiwi's at heart ;) I managed to watch the test cricket final on a very very tenuous connection, very happy we won that :) :)

[@brenjud]

Hi Darrin, greetings from Pomona in Queensland , Australia. Currently in lockdown at the moment. Love your style of video, and your sense of humour. Keep them coming and I will share with friends. Thank you.

[@roamingyak]

Thanks Brendan, happy to hear from the only Aussie state I haven't been to yet! And glad to hear that the film brightened your day a little :) Hope your friends enjoy all 4 episodes as you have...

[@henrygreen19]

Absolute great episode. Interesting and photography just perfect. Hope you carry on doing it as a lot will find this kind of travelling very appealing and entertaining. I am just a bit more south of where you are - in South Africa. Best and keep on doing what you like !

[@roamingyak]

Thank you so much for leaving a nice comment Henry. I'm hoping those other people you mention turn up very soon :-) Kind regards, Darrin

[@ianwilson8116]

Loving this channel! Currently watching ahead of a planned 2 week trip from Cape Town to Etosha and back again. Feeling like instead maybe I should quit my job and stay there longer! Has been 7 years since I last travelled overland to Namibia. A wonderful, truely unique place in the world and your videos capture it perfectly.

[@roamingyak]

Oh! Thats really great to hear! Thanks Ian. Overwhelming scientific evidence is showing that only the most discerning and very best looking like my channel! 🤣😂 Enjoy the next 17+ episodes, and please share share share them all!

[@mikemorrison8665]

Just found your channel - fantastic! There is something special about Namibia that just gets under your skin. We were in Puros March ‘20 when South Africa went into lockdown so went north to the Caprivi strip where we spent 2 weeks waiting to get authority to cross back into South Africa where we then went into 2 weeks state quarantine. Looking at getting back to kaokoland next year.

[@roamingyak]

Thanks Mike, I'm glad your liking it ;-) Hopefully see you up there one day......!

[@nev634]

Hi Darrin, I'm from Victoria in Australia. And I'm absolutely loving what you are doing in this series. Great approach! Africa seems much more picturesque than Australia in many aspects, providing many opportunities for superb footage. Damn shame about the drone, those shots would have been great. But what I've seen so far, with your editing/storymaking/photography skills has been excellent. Also great to see the personality coming out, really nice touch. Just being you going about fulfilling your dreams in any way you can, really good. Anyways, fantastic work, keep it coming. Nev.

[@roamingyak]

Thanks very much for the message Nev, really nice of you to reach out in a detailed and thoughtful way, thanks ;) Both continents have their virtues, I enjoy being in both for different reasons, Australia definitely needs more Lions and Elephants to compete with Africa for my interest ;)

[@dallasyeatman272]

Awesome video mate...you're a natural. Love the format and content...can't wait for the next one....stay safe and keep the shutter going...

[@roamingyak]

Thanks 👍I will try to pick up on things soon... I really enjoyed making these an would love to build on it for years to come...

[@graemecox9862]

Really enjoying your episodes, please keep them coming Cheers Graeme from Melbourne Aus.

[@roamingyak]

Thanks Graeme, I'll do my best to do that ;)

[@nickboylen6873]

Good start to the channel! The video and audio quality was good, better than a lot of established channels. Looks like a great trip, save for the hassles and the bad drone.

[@roamingyak]

Thanks Nick, much appreciated!

[@nikokisting6189]

Really enjoying your films, Darren! Keep going and all of the best!

[@roamingyak]

Thanks, will do!

[@elbekko]

Watching from Belgium, very much enjoying the series. Good to see someone else took the Covid travel plunge, I left for Sweden when the signs for the first lockdown were appearing to be with my girlfriend, and ended up living there and working from there for 5 months. I feel your charger pain, on a trip a few years ago with my Range Rover I had fitted a 300W inverter, which promptly popped when I plugged in my 200W laptop charger... which reminds me that I should take it out someday and replace it with something decent.

[@roamingyak]

lol a bit too cold for me in Sweden! I hope you enjoyed it...!

[@ppoletto]

excellent channel in every aspect. greetings from São Paulo, Brazil

[@roamingyak]

Muito obrigado! Saudações de Portugal :-)

[@sylviefailletaz2513]

Great episode! I am a huge fan of your channel! 💥🥳

[@roamingyak]

I'm a huge fan of you being my number one fan from Swissland! ;-)

[@OverlandingwithBruce]

Awesome. Love the honesty. Bruce Turner from South Africa

[@roamingyak]

Thanks Bruce :) Hope your staying safe in SA, lots going on recently ;(

[@OverlandingwithBruce]

@@roamingyak yeah it’s been crazy and on top of everything I’m trying to recover from covid. Can’t wait to get out there again. Please keep the channel going it gives some of us lots of motivation. Take care mate.

[@roamingyak]

@@OverlandingwithBruce hang in there mate, hope your not suffering too much... I had my 2nd jab during editing the above and it knocked me flat for 2 days, zero energy, but then all fine, so I've had a fake test of the real thing, seems horrid, see you in Purros soon hopefully! ;)

[@OverlandingwithBruce]

@@roamingyak thanks mate. Yeah not pleasant at all. Take care and hopefully we will be in Nam soon.

[@Anderzander]

Watching from LR4x4 :-) another great episode 😊

[@roamingyak]

Thanks mate, much appreciated. And another thanks for posting the videos to lr4x4 previously :)

[@justinlawson3249]

Hey Darren, Justin here from Cape Town. Great first video, looking forward to watching the rest. Well done on the editing and A/V quality. Thanks again for making our landing into Angola smooth with all your info, advice and sim card. I still remember you saying "...don't stop for them. Make them chase you." Fortunately, we never had a whistle blown in our direction.

[@roamingyak]

Thanks mate, glad that you two survived climbing over those crazy Angolan mountains!

[@jamesredgrove6141]

Another's fantastic video mate, thanks very much 👍🏻 Giving the girlie and I movitation while organising/building our own expedition truck 😁 Will share with friends and family 👌🏻

[@roamingyak]

Thanks James, making RY4 was a bit of a slog to be honest, but we got there in the end... so thanks for the nice comment ;) Keep at your truck, its painful and slow work sometimes, but hopefully worth it in many unimagined ways when your on the road!

[@jamesredgrove6141]

@@roamingyak ah yes, my other half is slogging away with our videos. So much work ay! You footage is very sharp, setting yourself the objective of mastering your cameras definitely paid off 👍🏻

[@roamingyak]

@@jamesredgrove6141 lets us know your channel when its up!

[@stevenmachado7733]

Hi Darrin , what ever you do,don't stop up loading video, been following you from episode 1, Steven from Polokwane in South Africa. Carry on,you doing great,

[@roamingyak]

Thanks mate! It's lovely to get some encouragement :) I'll keep doing my best, but real life gets in the way so its slow going... I hope things are well in Polokwane? I stayed one night there back in 2011 I... I enjoyed the Limpopo area!

[@gjackson123456]

Watching from Colorado, mate. Wishing I had thought of your COVID plan when you did!

[@roamingyak]

Good timing mate, I was thinking of Colorado last night (as I was watching South Park :) ! I wish you had as well, it would have been nice to have some company at times, it was quite surreal....

[@villetatamaroc]

Amazing video

[@roamingyak]

Thanks!

[@JeremyEdwards996]

Hi Darrin, love the videos so far and more than a little jealous - the footage is absolutely fabulous, crisp, clean, focussed. Love to see more. Equipment failures are par for the course; can you minimise the voltage changes for the laptop? Belkin used to do a decent vehicle to laptop charger, but I'm not sure how it would cope at 45C!

[@roamingyak]

Thanks Jeremy, I've always tried to avoid inverters, another device to go wrong, but the new apple laptops charge at 96 and now over 130 watts, so will have to get one. At the time I couldn't find anything in Windhoek, and as shown, had to get out to avoid a lockdown. I'll have to get one now, but at least the new apple silicon chips are far more energy efficient, albiet very expensive for a hobby that I make no money from etc

[@markyeadon7271]

Looking good, can’t wait for the next episode. In your opinion, could a big adventure bike make it on the tracks ( road & 4x4 )around there ? I’m planning to go in June 2022 and my biker friends want to join. Mark, Cape Town

[@roamingyak]

I guess so, but there could be a few tricky parts where you'd need to walk through... overall, less is more imho, a normal 4x4 vs a huge truck, small nimble bike vs a big heavy engine with too much gear....

[@nqumthemba]

The more you explained your decition to go back home and the your screen was becoming Grey , my heart sank in disappointment but i quickly realised that , you are being your usual Figurative Self using Videology and your Narration.😅

[@roamingyak]

I cruelly sucked you in, and then delighted you, sorry!! 😂😂🤣🤣

[@Anderzander]

Where’ve you gone fella? We are missing you !

[@roamingyak]

Thanks mate, life forced me to go in a different direction for a while - but should be able to pick things up here again in April :)

[@Anderzander]

@@roamingyak as long as you’re safe and well. Happy to wait - I’ll be here when you get back.