Full moon and pirates

Last night was the full moon party at 'Kendwa Rocks' beach. The big dilema as always was going to be the cash flow situation. Everyone we spoke to warned that drinks prices were jacked up for this special event so we had to invent a way to do this on the cheap whilst not missing out on the fun. The solution was to get a local guy to go to a bar earlier on that evening and buy us a bottle each of the local spirit at locals rates (5000Tsh each) and then transfer this into empty drinking water bottles. To the outsider this just looked like a normal bottle of water, but to the enlightened it spelt an extremely cheap night out. Bottles of Sprite at the full moon bar cost 500Tsh a pop (pun intended) and the night slipped by beautifully.

Dance music all night long to the light of the moon with the locals out-numbering the tourists about 2:1 and really throwing some serious shapes on the dancefloor. As the night drew on people dissapeared and some passed out on the beach. After one particularly lengthly conversation with an american lady named Alex I wandered along the beach to find Giles and Fergus passed out spooning each other rather romantically on the shoreline. I quickly relieved them of the rest of their grog and rejoined the party. I eventually found myself alseep on a random hammock where I stayed until the sun rose this morning.

I spent the morning in the company of another Alex, this time a modern day Pirate from Switzerland (!?). Having spent most his life on his parents ship, he moved to Madagascar where he bought his own twin sail ship on which he has lived for the last 20 years, now with his two daughters (6 and 7 years old). He just happened to be passing the beach when he saw the party and weighed anchor. Now I found myself in a random group of people finding out about this fascinating mans life. He is quite clearly insane, and pretty darn tough, but appears to be a good guy at heart. I have been invited to help clean the barnacles off the underside of his boat tomorrow. Sounds like a crazy enough plan to me... lets see if it happens.

I have also managed to burn my entire face and right shin in the sun today. Looking goooooood!