Sailing and Sea Kayaking

After a quick stop at Tiwi beach Mark and I headed to Kilifi, where we met up with Mark and Markus Savage, Camilo, Kris and Bender (the dog). Mark Savage, owner of Savage Wilderness Safaris, has a beautiful 42 foot sailboat which we were going to sail up the Kenyan coast to Lamu.

Loading up the sailboat

Once the boat was loaded we were ready to go. Mark S. had devised a rack that would enable us to tow seven sea kayaks behind the boat. Unfortunately about six hours into the journey the rack broke and we had to haul all the sea kayaks onto the boat. At about this point in the journey I started to feel sea sick and I would not feel better until the next day when we dropped anchor just off of Lamu Island.

Once we reached Lamu we spent four days sea kayaking before heading back to Kilifi. We were joined in Lamu by James and Liam.

James and Bender

Camping on a sandy beach

Dinner in Shela

Camilo sailing back to Kilifi

After returning to Kilifi, we got back into our car and headed to Nairobi. Within four days we managed to sell our car, change our plane tickets and convince BA to take our kayaks home. So on March 14 we were on our way to Zurich. After a brief stopover in Switzerland we flew back to Canada. We will spend about a month here visiting friends and family before continuing on with our adventures.