Diving the crab…

So I’ll combine two days into one post. Yesterday, Erin, Jed and I went on an hours briefing and lesson on scuba diving with the in house scuba company at Baobab, Diving the Crab. We’ll, let’s face it, who wouldn’t want to dive in this…

I’d been here 25 years ago and done precisely that and remembering how much I’d enjoyed that, I really wanted to go with my kids!

They coped brilliantly with the lesson and all was well. An afternoon spent lounging around the pool followed.

The entertainment was watching the monkeys come down and steal biscuits (more later on that) and donuts from people’s plates.

We awoke the following morning at 7am for an 8am departure for our 2 dives.

By 9am we were at the first reef. We spent 30 minutes or so on each of the 2 dives, seeing sea turtles, alligator fish, star fish, trumpet fish, clown fish, puffer fish and plenty others. I had an Sjcam and took videos of both dives.

Erin struggled with sea sickness between the dives, but managed both and had a great time.

The sea was really clear and you could see a long way.

Having finished the dives and given the kids a great experience, we headed back and had a quiet 2 hours in our room

Erin came and sat outside on our balcony and felt a bit peckish so went and got a packet of biscuits. She put them down beside her and chatted to me. Next thing we knew, a monkey appeared, grabbed the whole lot and shot up into our rafters!

We watched him eat the whole lot in front of us. He was eco friendly though, as he dropped the package back down onto our seat when he was finished!

Sadly, tonight is our last night, we fly from Ukunda to Nairobi Wilson, then transfer to JKA for our flight home overnight. I’m writing this at the bar beside the restaurant where we’ll dine tonight sipping a Pina Colada.

It’s been a great trip, working in the Orphanage, doing the safari and then here. I’ve asked my family to think of their 3 best moments from each of the 3 distinct bits of this trip and we’ll discuss it after dinner, so if I get time later, that may well appear here.