We’ve been in Zumaia for 24 hours and absolutely fallen in love with place. Today, Cath went off and sat on the beach and had some quiet time while I wandered around with the camera taking photos. These rocks are just mind boggling.
At the left end of the beach (the Southern end), I could see what appeared to be a small cave. So I wondered down for a closer look. As I turned the corner, I found a couple doing interpretive dance inside the cave and the guy had a DSLR set up on his camera bag videoing their performance. I started snapping a couple of shots of them and it seemed they were quite happy for me to do so. So what had started out as a random encounter ended up becoming an impromptu photo shoot. I grabbed the flash and off-camera trigger, and took a half dozen shots with them doing their dance moves. The guy came up and introduced himself as Marcel and asked me would I mind sending him copies of whatever images I had taken. He gave me a card. He and his partner, Imma, were lovely, and I really enjoyed the photoshoot we did together. The tide was coming in and the waves kept crashing inside the cave higher and higher up the sand. We had to keep on moving our gear so the water didn’t flood everything!
I also spent some time walking around the town, which has a lovely vibe to it. Peaceful, pretty, friendly locals… I could spend a week here easily. Who am I kidding? I could live here.
Oh btw…. a little somethin’ extra for fans of Game of Thrones. If you’ve seen season 7 by the time you read this, you’ll recognise the images from the beach at Zumaia as the location of “Dragonstone”! And that little cave in which I shot Marcel and Imma dancing? And which I also shot at sundown (the images toward the end of the set)? That is the same cave you see Jon Snow and Danerys walking through in episode 2. We got home to Australia, saw s07e01 about 3 days later, and completely flipped out when we saw Zumaia!
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