Mombassa is so beautiful. It's very relaxing. We sit on the balcony and watch the sunrise when we get up and full moon when going to bed. In between we have been swimming in the pool and shelling on the beach. There are beach boys along the beach and they haven't been a bother. Two of them took us out at low tide and it was our best adventure here. We found lots of beautiful shells and saw lots of sea life like starfish, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, sea worms and hermit crabs. It was fun to watch all of our reactions to the muck between our toes as we sunk into the ick up to our ankles. It only took about 20 steps to get used to it. Okay, some of never really did get used to it but it was fun nonetheless.

This place reminds me a bit of Arurba on a much smaller commercial scale. No drunk tourists or water craft and shopws everywhere, just people enjoying the beauty of the untouched beach. The garden keeper is Casim and he is going to show us how to climb a palmtree to get coconuts today. There is a pool table outside and yesterday Aggie played volleyball in the pool for a few hours with kids from Italy, Nairobi, Isle of Mann and South Africa.

We took a day trip to Malindi and saw the coast there. It is a smaller version of Mombassa with many tourists from Italy. Today we'll venture into Old Towne Mombassa for some shopping and site seeing. I'm sure I'll have the camera too.