The Swahili Coast is a fabled land. The echoes of its rich and unusual past are heard even today. It is land of unusual amalgams: in its people, a mix of Bantu, India and Arabia; in its history, inscribed tales of ivory, frankincense, slaves; in its nature, a horizon of solitary wilderness meeting dramatic skies; in its culture, characterised by the wisdom of acceptance. In my long walks along this unique coast I have come across junctures in time which beg a second glance to reveal the bizarre and the striking. I found conversations in the sky and earth, with masked women and young men curious of what lies beyond their shores. I experienced moments of the unexpected - nostalgia in the birth of something new and vitality even in a dreamy languor. Moments which almost passed me, disguised… under the veil of an ordinary strangeness.