Along our route we found many evidences of a very recent rainfall event. We found a guelta holding water and some gueltas very recently dried still retaining a rim made of green alagae. We found flowering colocynths and other blossoming plants I know from my botanic handbooks they should be no more old than three or four months.
A guelta full of wather in Karkur Ibrahim - Wadi Abd el Melik (December 2007)
When back in ItalyI apprehended from my friend Andras Zboray that also in the Sudanese sector of the Jebel Uweinat a lot of evidences of a recent rainfall event were found: during an October trip he documented gueltas full of water almost everywhere. By browsing the MODIS Rapidfire web-site (maintained by NASA) it was clear that a monsoonal rainfall event occurred the 25th of August 2007. The previous rainfall event occurred the 29th of August 2005. The last rainfall of the past century occurred in 1998 (see the Fao web-site).
A rim of still green alagae in a dried guelta
During our exploratory hikes, my friend Gert Pader visited again the Mònterin Cave with the aim to explore the passage we left unexplored in the 2006 because we did not have enough ropes. He give up because he found the cave full of water!
The flooded Mònterin Cave (Photo Gert Pader)
While I was busy with my exploratory hikes, my friend Gert Pader visited again the Mònterin Cave with the hope to overcame the passage I left unexplored in the 2006 because I did not have enough ropes. He was well equipped but he gave up because he found the cave full of water!
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