Half Moon Cay- My Mane Concerns
Foreign Land · Back in the Saddle
My Mane Concern
Keep the horse between you and the ground. Then let the shoreline rearrange what you thought the horizon was for.
Back in the saddle again. The art is simple: keep a horse between you and the ground.
With animals this well trained, riding becomes a kind of connect-the-dots. Still, heaven is high and earth is wide—and you see both differently when you are three feet higher than the other tourists.
The Riding Archive
Between saddle and sea.
Five original images preserved as one visual journey—from finding the rhythm to riding directly into the ocean.
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Back in the Saddle
The first rule is still the best one: keep the horse between you and the ground.
Three Feet Higher
Heaven is high, earth is wide, and perspective is partly a matter of elevation.
Blessed Gets Into the Swim
It didn’t take long for “Blessed” to get into the swim of things.
Ride the Sky
The saddle turns a shoreline into a threshold.
From Horse to Ocean
To ride a horse, they say, is to ride the sky—so now I ride the ocean.
“To ride a horse is to ride the sky. To ride one into the water is to discover the sky has tides.”
Journey Equation
Trust moves the body forward.
The horse knows more about balance than the rider. The ocean knows more about movement than either of them. The work is not domination. It is attention, timing, and enough trust to stay with the motion.
Read the Companion Stories
Five more routes into the saddle and sea.
Continue through private islands, blue water, shipboard trials, and the other horses that carried the story into Doha.
The Elixir
Now I ride the ocean.
The saddle was never only about the horse. It was a rehearsal for every moving platform that followed: ships, borders, weather, and a life that refused to stand still.