nocturne | ˈnɒktəːn |  
1 Music a short composition of a romantic nature, typically for piano. 
2 Art a picture of a night scene.

Nocturne Walk

We couldn’t determine the size of the lagoons as we approached them. Most things are hard to define, to get clarity on at 3am in the morning.

I was never sure of my senses. My vision was in unfamiliar territory as I am unaccustomed to having to figure out the scale of objects in a vast desert like landscape durning the night. I found it thrilling.

Even though I could not see the dunes, I had a sense of them. Partly it was due to the stars being blocked out on occasion by a dune that rose up in front of me in the darkness. Other times it was mostly because my feet told me I was on a slope of some kind.

I learned to see with my feet. I mapped out the contours of the land in my mind’s eye when I noticed my foot fall having to sharply, and often abruptly, change angle.

And yet, somehow, in my mind, I ‘saw’ the dunes. Just the way they look in this image.