He he he.. I haven't given up on this series :) Not yet at least! Cos my best moments of the trip are yet to be featured! Anyway, am getting bored of narrating stuff. So planning to put only pics in the 2-3 remaining posts. Here goes...
The next day began at Ile Aux Cerfs (pronounced ee-loo-surfs) beach island - Awesome place for adventure sports.
Amazing ride this!! Zooming around and falling into the ocean!!
Me - almost reached the rubber thingee.
Wifey - swimming for dear life a few metres away.
We didn't realize the ocean was only 5 feet deep beneath us!
Tandem Paragliding - this wasn't scary at all! God knows how!
A cruise ship on the way back from Ile Aux Cerfs
Outside our hotel room - just after the rains
Ditto
Freshhhhhhh!!
The stillness after the rains
(reminded me of that blue-colored Alaipayuthey shot)
Carrying a tripod around helped!
This was the REAL colour in REAL life then (8 PM)!!
Never knew nature could be so strikingly colorful
Now on to some photography lessons of sorts. The following three shots appear pitch-dark because they were taken at around 10 PM with the auto mode set in the camera.
What follows are pics of the same frames taken with the controls set manually. Basically just had an extended exposure - about 15 seconds for the first and second; 30 seconds for the last. No flash was used for these shots. Flash kills beauty in the dark!
This last pic won me a photography contest :)
(The 30-second exposure pic)
That was Dec-31 2008. Celebs at midnight!
Just when we had almost retired for the night, the revelry began all of a sudden. Fireworks lit up the sky and the ocean. And a Sega dance troupe began performing. (Sega is the Mauritian Belly Dance). Here's a video:
Mauritius Pictures
