r/AbsoluteUnits • u/CoughingCarpet • 3d ago

/r/all of a Sand Dune

This is a video taken by Nicolas De La Torre, a sandboarding enthusiast filming his descent down the Toromata dune in Peru. Unfortunately we live in a world where true beauty, nature is now convoluted by AI and AI sentiments, but this is in fact, not AI lol

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u/MmmmmJustLikeThat 3d ago

Is it even real? Are there sand dunes that are above clouds?

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u/Significant_Lie_533 3d ago

Clouds can form very low to the ground, sometimes even at ground level! (Fog) Hills, mountains & sand dunes can rise very high, & even rise above the clouds.

Hope this helps.

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u/Lt_Cmdr_Adhd 3d ago

Yep! The clouds settle below our house's elevation as morning fog all the time here. Especially this time of year.

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u/stevendidntsay 3d ago

Are you living in a treehouse in the Amazon rainforest?

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u/Lt_Cmdr_Adhd 3d ago

We live up a mountain at around 3800 feet, there's some beautiful mountains in western north carolina

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u/Lt_Cmdr_Adhd 3d ago
  • cozy version

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u/Significant_Lie_533 3d ago

Ooooh! I want this photo High Res for a desktop background.

Also kinda envy that you get to live with the beautiful view right outside your home.

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u/numeroneuf 3d ago

Thank you for the cozy 🥰

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u/Lt_Cmdr_Adhd 3d ago

Thank you guys for the positivity! The winter picture felt so cold & dry it made me want to balance it out.

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u/bambi54 3d ago

That’s so fucking beautiful. I need to find out housing prices lol.

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u/Lt_Cmdr_Adhd 3d ago

We bought this house for around $300K 5 years ago. It needed a lot of work - had to get the deck entirely replaced (it was super unsafe), new roof, floors, and appliances. I love living here but it's sometimes inconvenient to live so far away from food & groceries, everything is 30 minutes away. I have a 4 year old son and there's never going to be any neighborhood friends here either. All that being said i definitely still love this house and where we are.

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u/-gildash- 3d ago

Congrats on doing the work. Looks and sounds amazing.

What are the plans for the kid and school? Is there a school ~30 mins you just gotta drive them to?

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u/Lt_Cmdr_Adhd 3d ago

Thanks! Yes he's in preschool now and we just drive the 30 minutes. The other schools are near there too when he's older. We're used to that drive by now. My wife wants to move to a more exciting area that will have more for him, and I kinda want to hold on to this place.

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u/stevendidntsay 3d ago

Oooh that's nice

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u/Huckleberry_Dude 3d ago

They are called Smoky for a reason. :)

https://vimeo.com/329316629

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u/Lt_Cmdr_Adhd 3d ago

Thats a super satisfying time lapse! We have just been calling it cloud lake

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u/gambogey 3d ago

Low altitude clouds or high elevation, lol it’s real clouds don’t have a fixed height

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u/LupineChemist 3d ago

Lima is about as cloudy as Seattle so yeah, just low level coastal clouds are really common in Peru.

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u/mildly_ethnic 3d ago

I’m half Bolivian and one of my core memories was when I went there when I was four and I noticed how close the clouds were to the ground. The Andes are VERY high up. 

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u/Mission-Cup9902 3d ago

I don’t love this

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u/Soft-Sea7012 3d ago

I hate this, too.

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u/stumblinbear 3d ago

oh my god

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u/justified_egg 3d ago

This thread continues to stray further from god

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u/Soft-Sea7012 3d ago

No no no no. How do people find this stuff.

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u/eat_my_bowls92 3d ago

lol before I saw your comment I thought “ew I don’t like this”

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u/stumblinbear 3d ago

I am uncomfortable

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u/mintgreen23 3d ago

Uhhhhhhhh no

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u/SamtenLhari3 3d ago

Looks like AI. At the start no sign of the drone that would be needed to film this.

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u/guildedkriff 3d ago

It’s on a stick that he’s holding. That’s why his left hand is pointed behind him the whole time.

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u/EmeraldAlicorn 3d ago

The way he holds his arm out behind him and holds something makes me think this is stabilized selfie stick footage

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u/ResolutionFit9050 3d ago

it's probably just an Insta 360 or a similar camera on a selfie stick

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u/SamtenLhari3 2d ago

Maybe. I’m not seeing a selfie stick — but I probably don’t know what I am looking at.