Trade Wind hair

My hair began to twist and tendril the moment I got out of the plane at Zanzibar airport.

It did that when we went to Mombasa every year of my childhood. But it doesn't respond to other coastlines that way. The Atlantic, the Pacific, the North Sea, just turn it frizzy and rebellious. The air of the Indian Ocean, the Trade Winds, bring out all its soft wild curliness.