Wasini

Wasini island was once considered by the Reagen administration as a Navy base for the Indian Ocean. Thankfully he dropped the idea. Wasini is like Lamu 50 years ago. Lena and me were the only Mzungus for the whole stay. We stocked up on alcohol in Shimoni, which lies on the mainland, because there is no alcohol on the island. Another conservative place with friendly people.

Lena is great fun and made me laugh a lot. We asked the funny hotel staff for the way to the beach. We followed their directions and ended up walking through seaweed for about 3 hours before being absolutely sure that there is no beach. We rested in a nice elevated lodge and watched the flood coming in. Then we strolled through the second village of the island bought some bananas and walked back through the center of the island since the tide was high. At one point we thought that we had to wade through the mangroves - so we did. But while standing in the mud in murky waters we saw some other people walking along the beach. We assumed they knew where they were going and hoped that they wont see the two stupid Mzungus standing in the middle of nowhere - they didn't. We followed their tracks and found our way. A beautiful walk with a beautiful lady.

In the evening we knew that Wasini doesn't have a lot to offer so she brought up the idea to go to Mombasa Backpackers, since I was telling stories about this place all the time.

We spent three more days at Mombasa before she had to go back to the slum of Nairobi to spend the money she raised from friends back home. A good women doing good things.