I think today is Wednesday. We arrived at Kande Beach yesterday lunchtime. It is a campsite on the white sandy beaches of Lake Milawi. The lake itself is huge, actually takes up one fith of Milawi. From the beach it looks and acts like an ocean. You can't see the other side and there are big waves lapping the shore. The waves make it noisy like an ocean too.

This morning 4 of us went for an early morning 2 hour horse ride through the beautiful woodland surrounding the camp. We were able to see many of the little villages far more closely then in the truck. I was pleased I hadn't forgotten how to ride and Siri and myself were able to go off and have a few canters. The ride ended at the lake where we removed the saddles and rode into the waves bare back in bikinis the lake gets deep very quickly so we were in up to the horses necks. Really great experience.

I forgot to mention how my dive went in Zanzibar. We did an 18m dive from a boat. The sea was quite choppy so we made a very quick entry into the water as we were beginning to get a bit queezy. We dived over some coral plates which seemed to be teeming with fish. Clown fish, lobster, puffer fish, scorpion fish, moray eels ... and many more. I was pleased to have done it as it was my first proper dive but the rest thought that it wasn't a good dive because the visability was not very good ... they haven't dived in Portsmouth's Gunwharf obviously. I thought it was bloody marvellous, not a shopping trolley in sight. The boat trip back was pretty cool too.

Our next big stop is Victoria Falls in Livingstone, this is where we can do lots of activities like white water rafting, helicopter rides over the falls, jet boat riding ... we are all beginning to plan what we want to do ... very exciting. In the meantime we will chill out on the white beaches of the lake. The lake itself is supposed to be home to a nasty parasite that lives in fresh water, burrows into you skin and after about 4 months makes its way to your liver and creates havoc there. We were all told in England not to go into any fresh water in Africa but after the horse experience this morning guess we will be taking our chances. The lake in this part is so rough that we have been assured the bug does not live here ... more in stagnant waters ... so fingers crossed!

Sorry about lack of pictures still ... I am working on it.