After my meetings in Nairobi, Kody and I headed off to Lamu – an island off the Kenyan Coast. We arrived at the airstrip on Manda island and a cart took our bags down to the dock. A short ferry ride on wooden boats with an outboard motor takes you to Lamu itself.


It's a Swahili town, with older buildings made out of coral stones, and tiny streets too small for cars. Donkeys are an important form of transport here, and the only vehicle is actually a donkey ambulance.

Hope that Air Kenya won't be using donkeys to get us back to Nairobi.

Kody has a lot of phobias

We walked down the island past Shela town to get to the beach, where we happened across goats in the sand dunes, and a guy walks 2 camels and a little dog. The walk is a long one back – should have hitched a dhow to take us back to Lamu Town!



The next day we took a dhow trip out to fish on the water. Our sailors were much better at fishing than we were. I did catch a little one, though. The guys barbequed the fish, and made a nice fresh salad for us. We had an excellent beach picnic, a swim in the warm Indian Ocean waters, and a nap under the trees. It was perfect, except that I woke up covered in sand fly bites. Unbelievably itchy!

My little catch

lunch!

Sunset from our hotel

Overnight, a wall collapsed near our hotel so we had to do a little rubble-climbing to get to the waterfront.

After gorging ourselves on the most delicious smoothies you'll ever have and tons of ocean fish, we had to head back to Nairobi to catch our flight home.

The waiting room at the Manda Airstrip