July 20th - Dhow trip

After a breakfast of pancakes, toast & tea we went in search of an Internet access point. Our mission failed however on discovering the server was down, so we settled for a wander around Lamu town, again. Almost straight away we were found by a man I had previously turned down, wanting to take us to see his gallery. We obliged this time on the off chance there would be postcards present. After being led down a series of side streets we came to a small room filled with paintings and jewelery, nothing of interest to us. When told we wanted postcards he immediately set off to lead us to another 'friends' house where there were postcards. Miranda purchased two & we went on our way.

Later we met with Bobo, our captain who took us to his dhow, and we were soon of. We sailed out into the sea where we got good views of Lamu and Shela, and stopped on the far side on a pristine beach where we swam.


After a swim and a walk along the beach, crab watching, we returned to Bobo's boat & waited for his crew, who had gone to find a woman that had been dropped there in the morning.

All aboard we set off round the island of [can't remember] to see a ruined village in the center of the island. During the visit we stopped on the shore of the Indian Ocean or the far side of the island and played for a while in waves of at least 6ft. Nzuri sana!

We also obtained a fruit of the baobab tre, which tastes a bit like sherbert.


We returned swiftly to Lamu about 5 hours after departure and went hunting for food. Not a difficult hunt mind, after getting a few sticks of meat from a street stall we went back to yesterdays restaurant (who wouldn't) for another filling meal & couple of pints of passion!