Day 15: Lazing By the pool

Woke up at a leisurely time of 8:00 and got ready for Breakfast at 9:00. By the time Katie and I got down to breakfast everyone else had already eaten and were now in the pool playing water polo. As we were the last down we seemed to get special treatment and had full blown waiter service. We both opted for the “light” breakfast which was the best breakfast I’d had all the time I’d been in Tanzania – fresh fruit, freshly baked rolls, fresh coffee and real milk (not had that for a while). Katie and I sat chatting for ages after breakfast before heading over to the pool to join the others. We took a walk on the beach and went for our first swim in the sea – it was so warm. I have never felt sea so warm (no I hadn’t wee’d in it!) even on my diving holidays in Egypt I have never felt sea so warm – it was almost hot!

After swimming in the sea and taking some photos of the beach everyone sat around the pool and made the most of the day in the sun that we had. That being the case most of us (well, the boys) did not put as much sun cream on as we should have done...by the evening there were some very sore people.

In the afternoon we played some more silly water games and then did bombing competitions in the water..well...you have to keep cool!

Around 5.00pm we all went for a long walk along the beach to watch the sun set. We went looking for crabs in the rock pools and realised just how far we could walk out to see with it only being ankle deep. Some of the photos we took were great as it looked like we were literally walking on water. As we came back at dusk, the crabs were on their way out of their holes in the sand..again – never seen so many of them. Katie took quite a dislike to them though and screamed (just a bit) which seemed to encourage every other crab on the beach to come out to see what all the fuss was about.

Dinner time came and we were all a bit knackered (nothing to do with too much sun!). Dinner was fantastic...again the best I had eaten in a while. Katie, Jan, Me and Kerry all had sea food platter which was awesome.

The evening was a quiet one with lots of conversations about all sorts of stuff ranging from kids TV programmes to 70’s/80’s films (StarWars and Back to the Future seemed to win), sports legends, and favorite movie stars.

Oh, we are going on a snorkeling trip tomorrow (all 8 of us plus a couple of Norwegian girls that are staying on the resort).