Lee Benoit ([info]leebenoit) wrote in [info]torquere_social,
2010-05-09 21:39:00
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Kwaherini, my friends

I'm going to have to say good night soon, but keep your comments coming and I'll reply tomorrow. Comments made before 10:00 am EST go into a random draw for a PDF of ASKARI; most frequent commenter wins a second copy.

I thought I'd leave you with a bit of a happy ending.  Of course Noble and Harry's story ends well, after many trials, and the epilogue is set in a little cottage at Diani Beach, on the Indian Ocean near Mombasa.

I've never claimed to be a photographer, so kindly forgive the quality of today's snaps -- they were taken with a pocket-sized 35mm film camera, no telephoto, no focus, very basic.

Anyway, here's the beach!



What's your favorite beach you've visited? What beach would you like to see some day?

Thanks to everyone who hung out today -- I've really enjoyed hearing everyone's travel tales!!

Cheers,
Lee xo

Pimpy PS - Find more information about my new Color Box, SMOKE: ASKARI, here.

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[info]andy_slayde

May 10 2010, 01:59:47 UTC 2 years ago

Good night!
Hmm, favourite beach... I'd have to say the beach on Long Island near Nassau Point. We have friends that live there and we would visit every summer. I would love to go to any beach near Ali :o)

[info]leebenoit

May 11 2010, 10:49:42 UTC 2 years ago

The Long Island Sound beaches are familiar to me, but from the other side of the water -- I lived in Rhode Island for many years and there are some of the best beaches in New England.

Any beach near a friend is lovely, isn't it? :)

[info]jan_irving

May 10 2010, 03:42:41 UTC 2 years ago

I really enjoyed your posting today. All the pictures and insight into what looks to be a very different kind of story.

[info]leebenoit

May 11 2010, 10:50:57 UTC 2 years ago

Thanks so much! I'm sheepish about my at-best-workmanlike photography, but very pleased with the new story, so I hope it balances out! :)

[info]katecotoner

May 10 2010, 06:17:46 UTC 2 years ago

Are those camels in the second pic? Wow!

[info]leebenoit

May 11 2010, 10:52:13 UTC 2 years ago

They sure are! There weren't a lot of bathers on that beach, but plenty of men on bicycles selling fish and more leading camels, most laden, to market, but I never found out where they were going.

[info]angelabenedetti

May 10 2010, 07:04:40 UTC 2 years ago

My favorite beach was always Natural Bridges up near Santa Cruz. I went with a friend's family when I was a kid. Her mother was a high school science teacher, and we spent a lot of time looking and learning all up and down the beach. It was actually a few connected beaches, if you were good for some rock climbing, which of course I was at the single-digit age.

There were two rock formations out in the surf, naturally eroded into arches, which was where the beach got its name. Unfortunately there's only one now; the other came down in a storm about twenty years ago. There's a stretch of regular sand beach, then if you climb over some rocks to the north, there's an area with a bunch of tidepools with sea urchins and anemones and starfish and such. Then past that, there's another small sand beach with a bit of a cave at the back. It was a great place to hang out and explore, and I got directions to it so my family could go a few times.

Angie

[info]leebenoit

May 11 2010, 10:54:11 UTC 2 years ago

That sounds absolutely stunning! How sad that some of the formation fell away -- I know such things are natural on seashores, but I want my favorite beaches to stay as they are in my memory! Sentimental, I guess.

[info]marasmine

May 10 2010, 07:21:35 UTC 2 years ago

I'm not sure I've met a beach I didn't like. One of my favourites is in North Norfolk, UK. It is mainly sandy with sand cliffs, but there are patches of rock pools when the tide is out. The water is usually clear. There is a five mile stretch between two seaside towns and I can usually find a fairly clear spot to daydream of mammoth bones in the cliff and how things might have been. Coastal erosion is eating away the cliffs so the beach is always 'new'.

I want to go to a real tropical beach with palm trees, white sand and blue sea.

[info]gabrielsknife

May 10 2010, 20:39:41 UTC 2 years ago

My favorite beach is probably the first one I ever went to in Italy. I forget where the beach was, but it was all white sand, with beach chairs everywhere and nice blue water. I'm also a fan of rocky beaches, because all sorts of crabs and such live there. I like to watch them scuttle about; I also like to move the rocks around and search for sea-glass. I wanna see some Bahama beaches one day too.

Love the photos btw ^_^.

[info]leebenoit

May 11 2010, 10:57:56 UTC 2 years ago

That Italian beach sounds like the one in the film version of Death in Venice, though I may be tragically romantic on that point.

Beaches with tidepools are endlessly entertaining, aren't they?

I once brought a friend from Antigua to one of the more renowned beaches in new England, where I live. I proudly showed it off, and he scoffed, "That's not a beach." So I can only imagine what qualifies in the Caribbean if you're from there (as a visitor, I saw lovely beaches, but I suspect there are some out of the way treasures only the locals know!).

Cheers!

[info]pd_singer

May 11 2010, 04:10:59 UTC 2 years ago

Darn, got here late. I think my favorite beach had to be in Akumal, Mexico, where we saw the sea turtles come ashore and swam with with them.

[info]leebenoit

May 11 2010, 10:59:08 UTC 2 years ago

No worries! Great to see you here!

Is Akumal on the Pacific or Gulf side of Mexico? You swam with sea turtles?? ::swoons::

[info]pd_singer

May 11 2010, 13:07:17 UTC 2 years ago

It's about an hour's drive from Cancun, which is the nearest airport. I hear it's rather more built up now than when we were there, but the diving is amazing.

[info]leebenoit

May 12 2010, 00:06:59 UTC 2 years ago

Those Quintana Roo beaches are something else! And the Maya ruins are pretty special, too!
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