6.40am. A beautiful sunrise. No dhows yet. They're late today! What I haven't yet seen is the sun coming straight out of the ocean - it's always too cloudy. Maybe later this week, at Palms? I can hear the dove again, it is the one that Bruno was always imitating at Selous.
We have decided that 7 nights here is too long. There isn't much to do and to go on trips means enduring the pot holes in the roads. Today we're planning to walk to Nungwi, right down to the western side of the village. Both of us are full of cold. Not great!
Well, it was a beautiful sunny day, so the walk to Nungwi was cancelled as we'd have frazzled in the heat. We did the Sunset cruise though... sailing around the Nungwi headland on a dhow. No engines. It was lovely. We had beers and nibbles on board and got as far as Kendwa on the western side.. that looked nice, lots of activity on the beach and lively bars and restaurants. After watching the sunset from Nungwi point, they put the motors on and we headed back to the hotel. Due to tides, we had to drop anchor a hundred yards or so from shore and swim back in! Luckily it wasn't pitch dark yet!
Dinner was accompanied by a free bottle of sparkling honeymoon wine! Nice. We had liver pate and chutney/toast, soup, fillet beef and rosti/veg/sauce followed by like an egg custard for dessert. It was all good, although the meat is not great quality here. I suppose its our own fault for not sticking to fish! Another early night for tomorrow we get ready for our move to the Palms.
