The beach was a boat ride away but the boat was broken.
Hakuna Matata as they say…
Undeterred Moonisea, guest manager,offered me a courtesy drive in the hotel bashmobile. It was only about half a mile away except there was no road !only a rocky hill top.
I considered for a minute…alone in a car…hmmm… Well I’d faced leopards …so what was a few hundred yards away, alone in a car with a smiley faced Cha Cha…that was his name. My premiss was when in doubt chatter away and ask their name.
I needn’t have worried but it was an experience on my first day and sure enough after I spied a few fishing boats…I.can talk about those later,,,, I saw a sweet cove complete with safari coloured loungers facing the sea and a bar!!! The bar man wasn’t there because he was with me in the car…Cha Cha?
None of your plastic brightly coloured beach stuff here. It was very tasteful. Cha Cha took up his place at the open bar whilst I tried to take everything in on my first Zanzibar day. After a while Cha Cha was not doing much business…there was only me…so he sauntered over to persuade me to have a swim in the Indian Ocean. I figured that if I swallowed enough water then I could order a drink off him..
It took a while for him to pursuade me that there were NO jellyfish and that the water was beuutifully warm.
It was!!??♀️?
It is such a beautiful spot but where the tide meets the grassland…there are too many plastic bottles!!!
Pretty soon , I was feeling pleased with my courage on that first day, I felt like a baby learning to take her first steps. A glass of dry white later, to please ChCha you understand, he left the bar to drive me back across the rocks and the goats…still smiling
But tomorrow and real diving loomed ????
It looks beautiful xx