I was driving home from a friends house tonight and as I came off of the dual carriageway there was the most amazing moon sat over Whitstable. Actually it was more like it was sat ON Whitstable it was so low. As soon as I got in I grabbed the camera and went to the beach because that is where most of the best shots of the moon are to be found (sadly it has shrunk quite considerably by then).

The only thing is that at 10pm the beach isn’t lit and I generally try to avoid it because it is where all the drunk trouble makers congregate of an evening (even Whitstable has those!) so you generally end up getting abuse hurled at you and sure enough as soon as I get to the beach I see two drunk people weaving around, they spy me and are immediately HEY GIRL WITH THE CAMERA!! HEY YOU!! So I am thinking oh great here we go as they walk up to me and then they are say omg isn’t this moon magical, you are taking pictures of the moon too? Great, our camera is rubbish, can you email us your shots??!

So of course I agree and honest to god, it was like I had agreed to give my kidney to their dying mother because the next thing I know they are wishing me a life full of happiness and joy and they did a special dance as they wondered off down the alleyway. It was pretty awesome I have to say.

Sadly they didn’t realise that just because I have a good looking camera doesn’t mean I can take good looking shots especially in the dark beach alleyway..in the freezing cold. I sort of climbed over a wall into someone’s garden to find a surface I can rest my camera on to minimise hand shake (Yes I too am wondering when I will get round to getting a tripod/remote combination) and took a couple of shots before running away when I knocked over some plant pots in the garden and the light came on meaning I was totally busted.

So sorry mystery drunk people, I am about to email you the following shot which doesn’t do anything any justice. Also sorry house people if I made you think there was some creepy person lingering outside your house. I am not creepy. Honest.