Penny, see the sea and icy.
1. Claire offers a successful bush toilet stop ‘Because no-one saw my arse.’ In the country there are no public loos so we must go where we can, and the avoiding crops rule means that you are quite desperate by the time you get there. If you are lucky, there’s a bush to hide behind: if not, it’s boys on one side of the truck, girls on the other. We squat together, giggling at the strangeness and wobbliness of it.
2. We sit by the pool taking a our first proper look at the Indian Ocean. Rob, who is an East Coast of the US boy, says he has never seen the sun set over the sea before.
3. Vodka slushies in metal cups covered in cool condensation. They are a lot stronger than they taste and quite soon I am feeling pleasingly lightheaded and reckless.
2. We sit by the pool taking a our first proper look at the Indian Ocean. Rob, who is an East Coast of the US boy, says he has never seen the sun set over the sea before.
3. Vodka slushies in metal cups covered in cool condensation. They are a lot stronger than they taste and quite soon I am feeling pleasingly lightheaded and reckless.
Marangu to Dar, Tanzania
How strange - I've never thought about people living on east coasts of continents never seeing an ocean sunset. I suppose living on our little island we don't think about things like that! We've all seen the sun rise, set, and do all sorts of things over the sea. Did you see one from Zanzibar? Or did you have to wait until the Skeleton coast?
ReplyDeleteWe saw a really good one in Stone Town the next night, complete with a dhow sailing across it.
ReplyDeleteWe didn't see any sunsets off the coast of Namibia or from Cape Town -- it was always too foggy, or we were never in the right place at the right time.
I hadn't thought of it, either. I felt quite sorry for Rob. Until he told me his favourite Wind in the Willows character was Toad.