Where is the moon?

Tonight is the night of the full moon party. People have been talking about this for weeks and everyones getting quite excited.

However...

We woke this morning to an overcast sky and most of the morning was a write off due to scattered showers. The afternoon was spent trying to find new, and cheaper lodgings so that we might prolong our stay. Our best offer was from a local barman who offered us his own house for just $3 a day each. We would have jumped at this change to 'live local' if his house had not been at the end of a very long and very treacherous rock path which would almost certainly have caused one of us some kind of nasty injury eventually. We decided the best option was to stick with the very nice Nugwi Guesthouse but to arrange a preferential rate of $6 instead of $10 if we promised to stay a week.

Now all that was left was to watch, wait and pray for the skys to clear, afterall, how can we have a full moon party with no visible moon?

We had dinner at our new lodgings which provided a chance to meet a bunch of new people and learn of the fortunes and misfortunes of their individual journeys through East Africa. One girl had just come down with some flu like symptoms and had dropped in to the local clinic for a checkup only to find out she had the beginnings of a malaria infection. Not very nice, but she was given plenty of drugs to cure it and as it was caught early it did not pose any real threat other than a few days in bed.

After dinner we all headed off for 'Kendwa Rocks' for the P A R T Y! We were very pleased to find that a small break in the clouds had revealed a lovely full moon, and just in time. The party was ON!