In January of 2000, I traveled to East Africa with the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). Every year or two since then, I dig out my journal in January and start reading the daily entries each day until early April which was when the trip ended. That trip was an incredible experience that, in many [...]
April 1, 2000
Today, we sailed to Lamu. Actually, we took a motorboat. We spent the afternoon walking around Lamu, I was with Craig mostly. Lamu is very touristy but still fun. We looked around some of the shops and ate a huge lunch. We had evaluatons and then met for dinner. After dinner, we had [...]
March 31, 2000
I returned at around 8:30 from my solo - it was raining pretty hard so I headed back. When I arrived, they were getting ready for breakfast. The sailors had cooked chipolties and eggs and then they brought out a big platter of crab. Crab for breakfast!
We loaded up and sailed back to [...]
March 30, 2000
Today, we sailed back to Kipangani, where we were windsurfing before. This was our “solo” day - each person had a section of the beach (out of sight from anyone else) to stay on for the night. We set off at around 2pm and are supposed to return around 9am. I spent time [...]
March 29, 2000
Today was spent on the beach at Teneway. It rained hard this morning for an hour or so. We stayed under tarps and rock ledges and kept relatively dry. After the rain, we had an “olympic” competition which was a lot of fun. First, we had individual events - wheelbarrow relay race, tug-o-war, [...]
March 28, 2000
Today, we sailed to Teneway, a small island in the open ocean. The water was calm so sailing was no problem. There’s a reef on the shore with lots to see when snorkeling. The visibility in the water wasn’t good though. I’m doing a class on tides tonight.
We had crab for dinner…excellent!
One of [...]
March 27, 2000
We slept on the boat last night - I like watching the stars from the boat at night. I used the choo [toilet] on the boat and when my feet went in the water, phosphorescent organisms were stirred up. It looked really cool.
I suppose that the correct term is bioluminescence (articles here and [...]
March 26, 2000
We were up early this morning to sail to another island. We stopped along the way at Matandoni for a resupply. We stopped again for lunch and then continued to Kipangani where we will spend the night and the day tomorrow.
My journal entries are getting pretty thin at this point and my memory [...]
March 25 2000
I slept on the beach again last night but had no crab encounters. This morning, we went and “interviewed” people in the village and then came back and discussed what we learned.
This island really doesn’t have an economy and fishing is really the main “industry” but that is really just for subsistence; they [...]
March 24, 2000
Today, we slept in a bit and had breakfast at 8. I slept on the beach last night to get away from the ants. It was nice but you have to deal with ghost crabs on the beach. I left my sleeping bag to go take an “aquadump” and when I came back [...]
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