Day 16 – Thursday 9th June – There’s a storm brewing…
Not much interesting happened! Filming the monkeys in the morning. They were at the top of the valleys so we all had a steep walk up in the morning. Especially up the valley aptly named “vertical”. The macaques were turning rocks over on the slopes to look for insects and ants nests. This proved to be a bit of a hazard if you were below them because the rocks rolled down the hill taking out anything in their path. I had a few near misses.
A macaque near the Quarry
Another near miss was when I was almost weed on by a monkey while standing beneath a tree.
Look out below! - A human's-eye-view of a weeing macaque!
After the previous day’s exploits I decided to try a different plan of attack and in order to get jib, and dolly style shots; I used my glidetrack in a vertical position. ( I will write a post specifically about this technique)
Glidetrack "jib" setup.
After lunch it looked as though storm clouds were building, so I set the tripods up at the top of the hill in order to record the formation of the clouds.
Cameras set up to capture the building clouds.
Unfortunately the clouds didn’t build as expected, however I did manage to get some nice footage of white fluffy clouds moving across the sky.
The evening was fairly standard. I dumped all the cards then I cooked myself a risotto with the beetroot I had bought on Tuesday at the Souk – it was pretty good if I do say so myself!