Sunrise

It's so good to be in a place like Dar-es-Salaam, Zanzibar or Mombasa, where sunrise is always punctual, varying by only a few minutes either side of six throughout the year. It's natural. It's.... as things should be.  It's so important that, in Swahili, the day starts at six, so seven a.m. is saa moja, one o'clock. You can set your watch by the sunrise.

This is so unlike the complexities of the UK where sunrise varies with the time of year and with the continuing incomprehensible changes to the clock twice a year. Sunrise, here in Golspie today, was at 4.26am - not that I saw it.

This picture looks east from the coast of Zanzibar, across an ngalawa, a local fishing boat, to a wonderfully calm Indian Ocean.