This morning began with the same routine of
waking up just before the Sun was due to rise and waiting for Nicholus to open
the gates to the beach. As we proceeded towards the beach, we were greeted by
the sight of humungous clouds which were perched on the horizon. The water
level was low but there was just enough water to create some interesting
reflections of the clouds.
As I set up my camera and tripod I noticed
that the clouds were moving quite fast; clearing a way for the Sun to rise. The
scene looked beautiful; it was definitely one of the more interesting sunrises
I’d experienced from the week so far.
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After the Sun had risen into the sky,
Nicholus and I sat down to talk. He started telling me about his life in Kenya.
He told me about his wife and how long they’d known each other; It was such a
romantic story. They were childhood friends, they knew each other from church;
then when they got a little older, her family moved away. 10 years later, when
Nicholus was in church one day, he heard someone singing in the church service
and later discovered it was his future wife!
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They should definitely make their story into
a movie!
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After breakfast, I went down to the beach
for my windsurfing lesson. I arrived a little early for my lesson, Killian was
looking after his children, he has a son called Frank, who is 7 and a daughter
called Lulu, who is 5. They were both playing in the water and swimming away, I
guess they take after their father!
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It was a much better lesson than yesterday;
I found it much easier to get some speed and started turning with ease. The
wind was taking me down the length of beach. I was 5 meters from the shore when
all of a sudden, someone swam into my path; I tried to turn the board away from
them and shouted but it was too late,
I abandoned my board and leapt into the
water, I looked up and thankfully the board hadn’t hit them!
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| Portrait of Nicholus Demonstrating Rembrant Lighting Using Natural Light, taken at Sunrise with the Sun to the left of the picture 50mm f1.8 at 1/800 at ISO 100 |
After clambering back onto the board, I
headed off away from the shore again.
I felt that I was getting the hang of it but
towards the end of the lesson I was just feeling frustrated as I was falling
off a lot, it's like driving, there's so much you need to be doing at the same
time and it takes time getting used to it all!
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| Flower by the pool 50mm 1.8 at 1/1250 at ISO 100 |
When I’d finished, I went back to the
cottages; my parents were just getting ready to eat lunch. That’s another thing
I love about Mombasa, you can eat outside from 8am til about 6 in the afternoon
because it is just so hot. Not like in England where you’re eating outside and
it’s hot one second and then cold the next!
But at the same time, I hate that there are
so many flies just flying around touching your food!
After lunch, we hopped in the pool to cool
off. It was really hot but cool at the same time. After a few hours in the
pool, my uncle came back and we all went for a short walk down the beach. There
must have been something going on because there were so many people but we
never found out what.
Links to the rest of the holiday are below!
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