Photo Update

I grabbed a couple photos from Rob's camera and I thought I'd load them to show a coupel shots of teh 4 of us. The first is a shot of us on our way up Kili the day before the summit day (l to r Rob, John, Tim, me). The next is from a sunset cruise we did on a local dhow boat in Zanzibar with our friend Tsvia from our safari trip and her Swiss friend (l to r Tim, John, me, Rob). Slightly different...

Photos are proving a bit challenging still, but I'm managing to get a few up there. Not necessarily the best ones I have, but some relatively good examples that are coming from my point and shoot (not the DSLR).

The first pic is a sunset from Kendwa Beach with one of us (I think Rob) swimming in the Indian Ocean. We saw some spectacular ones over the course of our week there. Kendwa is basically the only inhabited beach on Zanzibar on the West Coast so its the only one to get such great sunsets. Its also the only one that doesn't have tidal issues that prevent you from swimming either during high or low tide, so we enojyed swimming all day long every day. At some of the beaches the beach dissapears at high tide and at some it goes out as far as 2 miles during low tide making it impractical to walk to the water.

The next couple shots I took during our boat ride on one of the dive trips. We took a local dhow boat that was really cool. In the first shot you can see another smaller dhow cruising under motor power and in the second you can see the front of our boat as well pull into one of the dive shops to let some folks off.

We are in Stone Town for a few nights before heading back to the mainland by ferry and flying from Dar Es Salaam down to Northern Mozambique. So far Stone Town is pretty cool. Either the touts are getting easier to avoid or I'm getting better at pushing them away - I think its a combination of both. Zanzibar is strict Muslim so the nightlife is bascially non-existent, but it will be good to explore the cultural mixtures (African, Arabic, Inidan) here for a few days before heading out.