Dolphin Mombasa

... beach stretches for kilometres each way. The ocean glimmers between the many palm trees and is a light, inviting turquoise. Marvin and I both exhale the breath we had been holding – this is pure paradise. I am moving here! We scan the beach and finally decide on the palm tree that will be home for the next couple of days. Minutes later we are running towards the water and dive into the waves. Ahhhhhh ...

... My mom is single." <br><br>Rurine, Mohammed, David and Philip - and all of the sand they collected on their bodies during the day entered our car. We were on our way - traveling through the poor sections of Mombassa to visit each family. After several hours, we had approval from each family to send their children to school should we find sponsors.<br><br>If you wish to sponsor a child, please visit our web site: www ...

... fish, parrot fish, sting ray and many more. We finally headed out of the Mamba Village to Nakumatt to do some shopping and headed back to the hotel. 21 MAY MOMBASA 0700hrs: After breakfast and a long break we headed out to meet Igor owner of Blue Lagoon Water Sports. I met him after 10 years and he still looks the same. We chose our reef boots and I ...

... not but the challenges for everyone are mounting and with China and Asia now facing the same I wonder where this is all going to end. With Gordie trying to find another 180 zillion pounds from tax payers to save us, this might be a good time to invest in a great little book 'Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' by the clever author Douglas Adams; you only need to read the first 10 pages to get the drift and the ...

I've arrived!!! Not sure where to start I've got lots to say and the keyboard is jammed up and old so I keep having to skip back and correct words - any words with the letter "f" or "M" or WDBVA missing; just guess!! So London Heathrow and a brush with Airport security concerning baggage allowance issues of an extra 45kgs on top of my 44 that i'm allowed! but good ole Mum managed to wing it and instead of paying an extra 120 quid we got away with 15!! So now I can take all ...

... them 100 shillings....still angry about that. - while the tide was coming in (MUCH quicker than we thought) Jessie and I put our bags on the sand so we could watch them while we went in the water. After literally 2 minutes I saw a guy pointing at something which turned out to be our bags half submerged in water. We ran over and pulled them out at which point I realized I only had one sandal! While Jessie was hysterically laughing I frantically looked for my sandal ...

Sitting at the Fort Jesus, watching cherfully swimming kids and gazing to the Indian ocean for the last time, we reflected about the trip. We learned a lot... About fragmented country, its sophisticated politics, the habits of tribes and people, about beauty of the country... We were tired ...

... is it is still legal which we were very surprised about. Finally this guy shut up after we talked to the driver three times. He got a police officer to talk to him at one of the stops. We got home Monday morning at about 9:30am and went to bed for a while. That was our trip to mombasa, i am sorry it is so long and not checked for spelling/grammar but i am still very tired from the trip. Love and miss you all, Claire Don't for get to check the pictures, i have about 9 on here.

... I will be concluding my Africa adventures on the coast south of Malindi (right near where I just was). This will be the first time that David and I have parted company while here, and I'm very excited to spend 4 days in a cottage with 4 others - 2 Dutch, 1 French and 1 fellow Canadian, only 2 of whom I have met. These are the sort of times that I most look forward to, and it will be hard to not count down the days to getting there. Until then, the adventure continues...

... and 75 students. The Headmistress informed us that there were normally many more children but that malaria had hit the region and many students were out sick. The walls of the school were covered with alphabet charts and pictured of African animals. The school functions as a charity, it offers education at a reduced cost and a free meal. Many of the children only eat at school. Pastor Oda also told us that many of them were AIDS orphans or had parents who ...