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Kenya: Day 19: Diani Beach, Sailing with Dhow

We woke up quite early again and we took Mark to school. We continued towards Rastaman's shop, where the captain of the dhow was already waiting for us. Together we went to the beach and 2 more crew members were already there and soon we started sailing in the Indian Ocean.

We sailed to the open and there we stopped and started fishing with fishing lines. The depth of the sea supposed to be 100 meters, which is more than 2 times more than the deepest point of Slovenian sea. With Nada we both felt a bit sick because of the waves, but looking into the horizon helped a lot. After 2.5 hours we had enough fish for our lunch, so we started sailing back. One crew member cleaned all the fish on our way back.

We returned back to Rastaman's shop before noon and the captain started the fire and started baking our catch. While we were sailing, the Rastaman already arranged a salad Kachumbari and a coconut rice for us. The food was delicious.

On our way back we took a long walk on the Diani beach, where we found another GeoCache. This one was also in the area of the shops, but this time we didn't buy anything, so we just picked up a guy, who drove us home to Ukunda with his motorbike.

At home Edith made a dinner for all of us, vegetable soup with chapati. Since we leave early in the morning, we made a group photo and went to bed.

Homework at 6 a.m. in the morning

 

Our dhow and 2 crew members

Dhow (Arabic داو dāw) is the generic name of a number of traditional sailing vessels with one or more masts with lateen sails used in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean region.

Captain gave me the control of the vessel

 

Sailing to the open sea

Time to catch some fish

The bait

Stuck rope

 

First ones are out

 

Bad imitator

 

Time to return back to the shore

Claning the fish

 

Changing directions on the dhow

We are back. Info: the dhow's body was made in Tanzania and it is cheap to buy it.

With Dhow around Diani Beach

Our lunch, human excluded.

 

Our captain started the fire and started baking fish

 

Quick and simple

Fish lunch: fish, kachumbari and coconut rice

2 kids, Nada and Mark

Group photo: Nada, Tuši, Mark and Edith. Perfect CouchSurfing experience.

Ukunda, Diani beach and sailing with Dhow

GeoCache found:
- CURIO by Lukas, GC2T5WT, where I took trackable items "Edelweiss", TB4JGEB and "Travel Pirate Geocoin", TB5D2YM

Previous days on blog of Kenya travel days with Nada:

Pre-Pre Day, Pre-Day, Day1, Day2, Day3, Day4, Day5, Day6, Day7, Day8, Day9, Day10, Day11, Day12, Day13, Day14, Day15, Day16, Day17, Day18.