The Sands At Chale Island Ukunda

... 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 ...

... torch and standing under a waterfall in full clothing I think a swim is in order; no such luck! We are a month off of monsoon now; this is the hottest month in Africa where sun bathing and swimming on the Equator is guaranteed skin cancer unless you treat yourself to Factor 50! It's also shark season and swimming is best accompanied by the local guides - but the local guides have run off down the beach looking for their runaway camel - Oh dear! So ...

... and it is more of a creek that leads into the sea, if you look over the creek to the right about a quarter of a mile away where some very fine boats are harbored you can just about make out the tourists lounging on their sun loungers; no doubt giving thanks they ended up that side of the pond and not mine! It's so unfair I thought; that was always me - what the hell am I doing here on the wrong side of the creek!! Then I recalled how bored I ...

... took apart my binoculars (which I put back together, don't worry mom!). At first I thought nothing was missing. I looked over our balcony onto the forest floor and there to my surprise was my wallet.. .with lots of little chew holes in it. I was so lucky that they had dropped it somewhere I could see. We promptly put all of our valuables in a safe at reception (or should I call it a not so safe). We later came back to the safe to find that $100 had been stolen.... Not ...

Happy Valentines Day from Mombasa! I hope this message finds everyone healthy and happy! My Valentines day plans include a group meeting this afternoon and then a club outreach tonight at Tembo Disco. We went there last weekend and it's an amazing club, huge and open air, with really good music (even some 80's for me!). Tonight we'll be working from 10pm until 2am (clubs here are open until at least 4am though) and will mostly be distributing condoms and talking to ...

... no fuel. They kindly informed us that we'd definitely find in Mombasa though. So we had no option but to just keep pushing on and thankfully we made it to Mombasa, trying to use as little fuel as possible, and pulled into the first available station to give Frodo some juice. Alas...such is our luck, there was not a drop of fuel in Mombasa! There had been some kind of strike or ...

... they were all up but we had a slightly slow crew so we did not end up leaving until 12:00. By the way none of us brought shampoo or a brush so after the ocean we were pretty gross and i started washing my hair with moisterizing body wash ( thanks aunt jill it was from my christmas present, it really saved us!) When we got to Mombasa it was 1pm so of course we had to eat at a Chiese place, Jacquies favorite! The day would have been a real succss if lunch had not taken 3 ...

... I really thought it was an authentic impersonation. So did Claus. I decided it would be fun to travel with Claus for a week en route to Nairobi. We cleaned out his overlander, which was a fully equipped Toyota Hilux 4x4 double cab PETROL with Technichest (a big grey plastic contraption with storage compartments that fits onto the back of the truck) and large rooftop tent. Early on Saturday morning we set off hoping to reach the slopes of the majestic Mount Kilimanjaro...

... een sponsor
zoeken (die zich nu nog behelpen met zelfgeknutselde krukken, of alleen
in bed kunnen blijven). Dat loopt op zich wel goed.



Dit was natuurlijk ook een heel verschil met de geestelijk gehandicapten.
Het was er schoon en het was gewoon een erg goed lopend bedrijfje, met
daarbij ook een winkeltje waar je meteen de souvenirs kon kopen. Een deel
exporteren ze ook.
Bij Bombolulu ...

Seven of us from North Wales went to Kenya for two weeks as we were members of Girlguiding UK. During our stay, we worked in five different schools for children with disabilities. When we didn't work with the children, we visited Ngomongo Theme Park, Tsavo Safari Park and we had a ride on the Glass Bottom Boat, some of us swam in the Indian Ocean.