Prison Island was way cooler than I could ever have imagined. I thought there were a few tortoises and we might get a quick glimpse of them in the distance, but there were tons of them and they were HUGE! AND WE COULD PET THEM AND FEED THEM!!!! I didn't want to leave! They kept going after my green shorts and green flip-flops! I definitely wanted to take one home!
I think I left off saying I was hoping for some sun on the east coast beaches. Well, day 1 in Jambiani didn't deliver - it poured rain and we were confined to our beach-front bungalow reading books all day. But days 2, 3, and 4 more than made up for the rain, and I now have sun-burned thighs to prove it! I've never experienced this kind of heat before; being so close to the equator makes it hot hot hot! Yesterday we decided to take a dalla-dalla, which is usually a mini-van crammed full of locals, but in this case it was a converted truck with benches in the back. The 1 hour trip turned into a 2.5 hour one! Barb left this morning, and on my first day by myself I had decided to go to a place called Kizimkazi to hopefully see dolphins. Once again I was pleasantly surprised - not only did I see some, but I got to swim with them!!! I almost touched one but then it dove beneath me, and I watched two dolphins swim right under me!!! So cool, had I known I would have brought my underwater camera! Then we stopped at a rain forest that is home to an endagered species of monkeys called red colubus, and they only live in Zanzibar. I thought we would be lucky to see some swinging through the trees, but I literally could have pet them they were that close. Check out my current facebook picture; they're cute! Well, that's all for now.
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