Zoe found a small (40cm), lime green snake in the mossie net above her bed this morning! OMG!!!! Thankfully she was not in it & it was on the outside of the net. We are staying in a thatched banda at the beach. She was so calm about it .... "Daddy, there's a snake up there." At first we thought she was playing & did not even really pay a lot of attention. Thankfully this time we could call for help to "usher" our visitor out. Scared ourselves (thanks to a...

Left the lovely Usumbaras after a short but nice stay that included breathtaking lookouts, chamelion encounters & colourful markets. We'll have to go back once the kids up to hiking as some gorgeous trails begging to be walked. After a bumpy, dusty 6.5 hour drive we arrived at the beautiful coast. A challenge to find as hardly any signage & well meaning locals kept pointing us in the completely wrong direction! Our lack of Swahili & Aussie accents t...