Bring on the Island Weather!

So after the first week the moon started to wane, the wind died down and so did the waves all of which considerably contributed to decreasing my daily seasickness. Nungwi started to look more like a tropical island with blue calm seas.

With the moon disappearing the fishing Dhows started to go out again. Every evening the Dhows put up their huge white sails and literally sail into the sunset. It is probably one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen...to have the horizon of aturquoise water specked with hundreds of white sails.

Then if you wake up with the sun the following morning, you will catch them all sailing back, the morning light catching their sails as they glide onto the beach. The fishermen unload their boats with huge Marlin, Tuna and Barracuda that any sport fisherman would give his eye tooth to catch as well as Turtles and reef sharks that any marine ecologist would have a hissy fit over....everything is caught is huge nets that the fisherman drop over night. The fish are sold off in an auction as they come up off the beach. With the help of one of our captains I bought a "small" Tuna....it managed to feel four of us for 4 meals! There is nothing like fresh braai-ed tuna on the beach.

Last weekend a bunch of us all piled into a taxi and headed to Stone Town for Busara (a local music festival). The fest was fascinating and awesome. It was in an old fort, kinda like the Cape Town castle but a lot more run down. The first act I saw was Muslim music but the woman who sang is over 90years old! Apparently she is quite famous, even outside of Zanzibar. Next was a couple of black Kenyan Mamas shaking their asses in leather dresses! A woman from the Comores then performed...very whiney music but good....the comment made was that there are only 3 reasons one would listen to this type of music...to do Yoga to it, to do contemporary dance to it and to have sex to it.
Then a crazy, young upbeat chick from Egypt performed with a really good band and guy on Jembe, they were followed by a Tanzanian local band.
All it all it was a good night out and worth the long taxi ride there and back.

I am still diving every day and the number of dives is slowly increasing (I have now doubled my dives that I did last year). I am slowly beginning to know some of the reefs and my instructor is letting me lead a couple of dives, which is kinda scary especially since the first one I botched up so badly by getting lost.

But hopefully with some practice I’ll get there eventually. :-p