Sunset to sunrise, the waiting game.

Why not outline my daily timetable so far, this is supposed to be a holiday blog after all and as i was considering a choice between ‘Sunset to sunrise, the waiting game’ and ‘Living with what we have’ I decided it was enough eco-mentalist talk for the time being and a little more sun sea wind and tides.

And this is how it goes in my days at the moment, I wake up, if there is wind left over from the night before I get straight out on the water after a quick gorge on plate of fruit (i will abstain from breakfast almost, but never from nothing at all in the morning).

At the moment my envious kiting friends who think i am just a bit to jammy and are possibly re-thinking our friendship, I can tell you, i have not ridden in in over 14knots so far, ..everything has been 11-14knots, ..so i have not done a single big boost, …but it makes me appreciate every single bit of wind nature provides and once i am locked in and flying across the crystal sclera turquoise waters, I think to myself, this is not so bad, after all I do have month of this. You may however slowly start to see this optimism fade if the weeks where on and the wind does not begin to really fulfil its potential.

Then the day, well currently governed by the tides the day is more of a waiting game, the tide goes out, the wind just teases you at 10 knots (it took me a few days but i know better now, i know it is just teasing), i read, we talk about the wind and i enjoy my time with my new friends discussing the prospects and implications of the lack of electricity and wind, but always with a smile.

Lunch is taken at the beach, this allows me to add it to my tab, which given the no functioning nature of a cash machine (if there was such a thing here in the first place) this suits me well.

Then the evening comes and as the sun begins to set the wind again picks up, (it really picks up after dark just to tease you the most, but without light there is no night kiting so we ignore this and are grateful for the natural room air conditioning it provides) and we all hit the water for the last few hours eking every last minute we can out of the sunlight even if it means showering and changing by candlelight in my hut, something i have actually grown to really enjoy, especially as it removes all need for vanity as one simply can’t see the mirror, never mind your own reflection in it.

Dinners have now become a regular fixture at Paje By Night, for so many reasons, generator, internet, and most importantly really really good italian food (not all italian food, but cooked to the standards of an italian), which ends my days with a smile and a full stomach. The bartering of a tab here for my month was an excellent bonus as the exchange rate if you try and pay in dollars is made up on the spot and about twice what you would pay on the card, so now i will have 2 nicely sized tabs to manage, and a cash free holiday, which always removes some stress, …or just bags it all up for the end :)

The nights, they are governed by the wind, they are either hot and sweaty or they are made pleasurable by the wind, …oh wind, how you affect so much of my life.

When the morning come however, it matters not, because this is what i wake up to.

(it takes 2 images to really show you what i mean).