Mary in Malawi

Reggae time!

After a hard weeks work, we spent a lovely weekend at Cool Runnings, a completely wonderful place by the lake.
Theere were a lot of children playing, they lived in little houses right next to the beach. the locals swam, fished and washed their clothes by the shore. It was really nice, to see the real lake life. This pretty girl came and sat with us on the beach. She didn't talk much, but she was extremely cute. She actually curled up next to me on my towel! So sweet!

 

there were also three really nice rastafari-guys on  the beach! Isac, Easy Tiger and Chocolate. They lived of making wooden art. They sat on the beach all day, smoking, listening to reggae, making art and selling it to people. They taught me to play the bow-game; a famous african game. On the picture below, you see me and Chocolate playing =). Easy Tiger also took us in
his boat to Lizard Island; An Island where it lived GIANT lizards, they could be up to 1.5 metres! The whole island where as it was taken from Jurassic park or something, untuched by man, full of bird shit and giant trees and leaves... everything was in Extra large, we felt so small! And we saw two lizards! they where HUGE! But also, unfortunately, very fast so I didn't get a picture. Here below, you can see Easy Tiger, Me, Rebecca (med. student) and Liz (med. student) on the island. The rocks where all white, like snow. And it was all bird shit. Nice... ;)



We also didd some snorkling by the island; I saw a lot of fishes I recognized from my fathers aquarium! =) Very nice! We stayed until sunset, and then we went back to the beach for dinner, wine and reggae! Life is sweet!