Giles

Part 1 of my study of sunrise from the plane over the Saudi desert

Part 2 of my study of sunrise from the plane over the Saudi desert

Part 3 of my study of sunrise from the plane over the Saudi desert

Part 4 of my study of sunrise from the plane over the Saudi desert

Part 5 of my study of sunrise from the plane over the Saudi desert

Part 6 of my study of sunrise from the plane over the Saudi desert

Part 7 of my study of sunrise from the plane over the Saudi desert

The view from my room at Kipepeo

When I first saw Africa stretched out before me

Looking out from the Dr&#39;s house for the first time

My first day at work, whitewashing Salome&#39;s new room

Working hard to get the room ready

Cos you were sick of me at work...

Looking past a tree-root to Kwemshi

It may look overcast, but I&#39;m sure it wasn&#39;t going to rain

Can anybody else see the resemblance of a Gorilla in that cliff?

Hard to believe I used to climb that every day...

Looking past some strange palm to another epic lanscape

The same palm from the other side, I think

I was shown this by some of the kids as I was walking up from Kwemshi

Just turn right above the rocks to find a little secret spot

Ele, India and Flo throwing some shapes

The first photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

Lucas, Edward, Epimark and Paul hard at work at Kwemshi

Lucas, Giles, Edward, Epimark, Paul and Tahmour slightly less hard at work

Looking down the mountain from the Kwemshi site

The second photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

Will in the middle of a busy Kwemshi day

The third photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

The fourth photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

The fifth photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

The sixth photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

The seventh photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

One of my favourite photos, looking out over the clouds from Yamba primary

Will&#39;s birthday party at Mzizma

Will takes to the floor to get his party started

Vic, Will, Ele and India amid a sea of dancing bodies

Vic, Ele and India dancing away

Ele, looking very excited about something, and Will

Ele, Vic and Will are dancing... Carol, Sybil and Tom definately aren&#39;t

Vic, Ele and a bit of Giles&#39; hair

Ele and India are only looking in one direction tonight

Not sure Sybil was too sure about dancing with her students

Will and Giles in one of those classics of self-photography

Will, India, Ele and Giles

&#34;Yeah, mum... I&#39;m gonna be late back tonight...&#34;

The kid on the left looks rather jealous

Dancing in the kerosene-light

India, Edmundi and Ele

Will and India outside the Mzizma loos

Will and India again

Will and India, still outside the loos

A tree in the Mzizma garden - just barely visible

The eigth photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

The ninth photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

The tenth photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

The eleventh photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

The twelth photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

Giles and Will bricklaying

Lucas bricklaying

The thirteenth photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

A beautifully cloudy day

The Irente info board

Sybil with the chameleon in her hair

Giles with the chameleon in his hair

Me and the chameleon, getting along well

He&#39;d gone round most of us by this point...

From the Irente viewpoint

From the view point again

Flying high at Irente

I don&#39;t think I&#39;ve ever seen so /much/ country at once...

Feel slightly like a god surveying the world like this

I hope no-one who lives there sleepwalks

The fourteenth photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

The fifteenth photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

A few whisps of cloud cling to the base of the mountain

The sixteenth photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

The seventeenth photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

The eighteenth photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

The nineteenth photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

The twentieth photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

The twenty-first photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

The playing field at Mili primary

Mili primary playing field

India and Ele, surrounded by adoring fans

I&#39;m afraid I don&#39;t know any names

On our random walk on the Mili weekend

Will entertaining the masses

Will holding hands with Filipo, and Flo further on

Lets ignore my thumb in the corner...

I&#39;m sure this would pass for a rockstar&#39;s publicity photo

I /think/ it&#39;s David in my hat

Flo and India on the way back from Church

Trying to be clever with this one, took it from ground level

The twenty-second photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

The twenty-third photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

Why does Yamba have a white Jesus in their church?

Now where does that remind me of? Dunno, Kilimanjaro

The twenty-fourth photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

The twenty-fifth photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

Taken one morning as we walked down to Kwemshi

Looking out over the clouds

Well, we all had to try the photo-op

The twenty-sixth photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

The twenty-seventh photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

The twenty-eighth photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

Freddy inspects our work

Freddy and Epimark discuss the day ahead

Freddy and me up high on the scaffolding

Paul and Will bricklaying on our lovely scaff

The building team assembled before Will left

Why am I the only one kneeling down?

The twenty-ninth photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

Another night at Kwemshi

Everyone was looking at the camera rather than the cards

Not sure what Will&#39;s face is about

Tom hides his cards from Johni

On his last morning in Yamba

Ester, Clemencia and Will

Ester, Clemencia and Will in the kitchen

They&#39;ve made it outside, but no further

Will really is gonna go now...

Some of the Kwemshi pre-school kids

Kwemshi kids again

I tried this photo several times, so it might get dull

Same again

Probably the most sucessful attempt

This time there&#39;s even a beach

I never understood that idea til Pangani

Now moving towards sunset

Part 1 of my study of sunrise over the Indian Ocean

Part 2 of my study of sunrise over the Indian Ocean

Part 3 of my study of sunrise over the Indian Ocean

Part 4 of my study of sunrise over the Indian Ocean

part 5 of my study of sunrise over the Indian Ocean

Part 6 of my study of sunrise over the Indian Ocean

The beach at Peponi

I never imagined it would be quite so lively

So much colour!

As ever, the mzungu with a camera has attracted some attention

A few of the stalls, as it were

I just couldn&#39;t stop pressing the shutter button

I quite liked the white of the bird against such a colourful background

Roll up, roll up

More of market day

The light shines through at Kwemshi

Sybil&#39;s Std VI, I think, show their skills

Miranda with her Std 4 (?)

Some of them were getting the idea, at least

The red team doing well

Intense concentration

It all seems to be going wrong on the left

One of these two really cares about winning - can you tell which?

Lots of frenzied activity

Std V get jumping

A team effort on the long jump

Before everyone down the hill got trampled

You have no idea how much risk I took to get this phhoto ;-)

More photography from the front line

Getting perilously close to the crowd now

A winning run for Red team

...there were quite a few of these

Over a dappled landscape

No, not a Kate Nash moment

And as many of you found out, I&#39;m not good with pills

The rather fetching little paper drug packets

Simon takes charge of the mp3 player

How you expected Africa to be

Up the hill from Kwemshi

The thirtieth photo in my time lapse series at the Kwemshi site

The carpenters hard at work

Any journey through there would have to be an epic quest

A photo I suddenly realised I hadn&#39;t taken yet

Start them early...

Simon showing his skills

Looks like the football&#39;s going soft

Tom and Edwin (? - I wish I remembered more kids names)

I had plenty of sunrises, but no sunsets before this

Egg sets the standard

Sorry, dunno who that is...

And you can see the effort on her face...

Tom and Miranda play another hand of go fish

That mound of earth is structurally integral

Though she really should have been doing one of Tom&#39;s poses

Possibly the coolest roofing anywhere in the world

When I have my own house, I want that roof

Another unconquerable mountain

Less impressive, tbh

The last light fades

Vic got fed up of our lame dancing, and had to demonstrate

Dunno what these flowers might be called, but I like them

Usually here its the clouds that make a sunset...

Another day on the Kindergarten site

Above the football pitch

From above the football pitch again

A bird&#39;s eye view

The thirty-first photo in my time-lapse series at the Kwemshi site

We were off to Tanga. They were staying put...

One of my favourite sunsets, I think

I loved the contrast between ancient traditional carving and Coke sign

Just love the feet

Back in Club Chica

Club Chica-based fun

Everyone getting down in Club Chica

Across the railway and into &ldquo;real&rdquo; Tanga

Tanga market

Everything under one roof...

At Anna&#39;s grocery

View out of the back of the landcruiser

Out of the back of the landcruiser again

Graffiti in Std II

With no DEET

Tom getting a haircut

Tom&#39;s haircut continues

By now I was taking nearly as many sunsets as sunrises ;-)

We never did find out who he was impersonating

Not sure which Std at work under the trees

We always knew the ants in Yamba were a bit different

Some of the women breaking rocks for building

Our own little world in the heart of Africa...

The table set for our meal with the housegirls

My silhouette with the sunset behind me

Darren and Ester on his last morning

It was very easy to take photos of Kwemshi...

Waiting to say goodbye to Carol, Vic and Darren

Cosmas challenges the weather to get him NOW

Tree against a ribbed sky

If someone knows her name, please tell me!

Another Yamba sunset

Martin, Miranda and me playing cards in the dark

Martin, Miranda and I kept watch

Outside Mzizma just before we left

Miranda, Tom and Martin in competition

Johni, Johni Leubeni

Alfredi and someone I dont know admiring their reflections

The two guitarists (with 6 strings between them) practice for church

Clemencia

Clemencia and me... I miss her :-(

I got to meet Johni Leubeni at last

Really need to decide how I&#39;m gonna spell his name tho

The glow-in-the-dark frisbee

Well OK, it was just my last night in my room in Yamba

Leaving Yamba first thing in the morning

Edmundi, John and Andrea get the car out

Ele with Godfrey&#39;s son

I know babys are meant to be small, but something&#39;s wrong there

Upenda looking out over Mili

Upenda looks back to us...

Ele and some of her kids

In Mili school

Looking through the goalposts at Mili primary

Graffiti on a door in Mili

In a Mili tea shop

But it seems to be stuck to the roof

Some of the Mili students head home

Only of course we wouldn&#39;t

Victor gets to work on Ele&#39;s arm

My arm after a visit to Victor&#39;s tattoo emporium

A few of the Mili kids came round for our last night

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

I have quite a dark monitor, so I dont really know what this photo shows...

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

What happens when you let the kids use your camera

And of course oranges

Surely someone on that bus must want an oddly large quantity of fruit?

Early on day 2 of our trek

Largely a photo of cloud, really

Kibo, with Uhuru peak at the top, from Horombo hut

So called for their black and white stripes, shockingly ;-)

Building a new hut at Horombo

The Horombo site above the clouds - does look pretty...

The craggy Mawenzi peak

The day we started walking and could actually see our target

Me, Ele and Kibo

Mawenzi peak viewed from the Alpine desert

A line of porters working towards Kibo

Possibly the most unlikely graffiti in Kibo hut

But I&#39;m looking a bit spaced out ;-)

Part 1 of my study of sunrise from Uhuru peak

Part 2 of my study of sunrise from Uhuru peak

Mawenzi poking through the clouds while the sun rises above them

Part 3 of my study of sunrise from Uhuru peak

Part 4 of my study of sunrise from Uhuru peak

Looking into Kibo crater from Uhuru peak

Through a chasm in Kibo crater to a sea of cloud

Part 5 of my study of sunrise from Uhuru peak

Part 6 of my study of sunrise from Uhuru peak

A slightly squiffy photo of me on the glacier

The ice sheet behind me is due to melt in the next decade...

The craggy summit of Mawenzi pushing through the clouds

A view back up the mountain as we descended

So much cloud you feel you could almost walk to Mawenzi...

The clouds move across the mountain, after the sunlight