The rains have come to Pemba, but not quite to us. Thunder booms and rumbles to our south. The sky is filled with heavy clouds but the sun beats down on us relentlessly. We have officially closed. Our last guests, a splendid pair of birdwatchers from Canada departed this morning. We have started packing up and the dive centre and kayaks are all inside the building. Stuart has been pulling gearboxes off engines, in the hope that we can find out what has gone wrong with the cooling systems of all our 60 horse power Yamaha engines. Eventually the last hidden [View Full Entry]

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The days have flown by, and in two short days, the Chepstow branch of the anti corruption unit will be off to Zanzibar for a night and then back to Chepstow via switzerland. In the short time since they have arrived we have only caught two fish. One was a small Tuna and the other a blue fin trevally. Bonefish, and dorado have come round to say hello and then left us without a bite. In fact our efforts are so poor that Emma, our residence manager has renamed us the "rod holders union". Thankfully the diving is still superb. Clear [View Full Entry]

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In a few short days the entire face of Swahili Divers and the Kervan Saray Beach lodge have been changed by the arrival of the “anti corruption unit”. A force of five to seven workers who hail from the Island of Jersey (where corruption was invented) and South Wales. (where fishing is still practiced). Still refusing to pay bribes, the team valiantly fix boats, install intercoms, mend rods and go out fishing. Our brand new Yamaha boat is coming closer and closer to completion. Our old and valiant rib, Rockhoppa is being dismantled. We have a rejuvenation program designed for her [View Full Entry]

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Dear friends, Greetings from Pemba, the emerald Island that sits in clear, deep, blue water. We are only 30 Nautical Miles off the coast of Africa, and yet we live in a different world. I have been sending out Haber News letters for some time now, and yet I feel that we are loosing something. There is indeed a power to the written word, but nothing beats a photo. I toyed with sending out word documents, but they become too heavy and they are rejected by spam filters. Then my good friend Greg Wilson from the Cook Islands set up his [View Full Entry]

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I feel activated... synergised.. . alive here... i return to england and part of me is left behind..., part of me dies... the magical splendours, infinite spaces, and possibilities fire my imagination and stir my soul...when i feel i am in africa , i feel as if ive come home after a long abscence...its as if i can begin again to breathe , to be aware of my spirit as if it is the very air i take in after so long... when i retain the majesty of this wonderland in my heart ; i become me at long last; freed [View Full Entry]

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Diving in Pemba Africa » Tanzania » Pemba By Naddl May 31st 2007 so, hab mal wieder ein paar Minuten Zeit ein paar Bilder zu posten - diesmal von unserem Trip nach Pemba zu meinem Geburtstag (also auch schon wieder ein paar Tage her....). Der 30. ganz ohne viel Wirbel, zu zweit zum relaxen und vor Allem zum tauchen - Bungalow mit Blick auf den Indischen Ozean, schlafen, barfuss zum Fruehstueck/Lunch/Dinner, Bier und viele, viele Fische...... Pemba, die "kleine Schwester" Zanzibars - gruener, schoener, sauberer und ein kleines Paradies nur 30 min Flug von ZNZ. Aber seht selbst...... Ich glaube das ist jetzt erst [View Full Entry]

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Je n' ai pas le temps de tout vous écrire, les photos parlent d' elles-mêmes! Je vous invite dont à voyager par les yeux. Vous aurez bien la chance de me lire, j' y compte bien. [View Full Entry]

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J' étais craintif de venir plongée ici à Pemba. Les guides décrivaient les sites comme suit:"....it's like a video game and if you visit a cave be sure shure to see everything before come out, after that it's like a washing machine in spin cycle...". Maintenant je peux vous dire que j' ai eu de la chance car les dix jours de plongées une journée seulememt a été avec faible courrant. Exceptionnelles ont été les autres sortie! J' ai suivi le cour de "Advance Open Water" ainsi obtenant une meilleur expérience de plongeur! J' ai donc effectué; Naturalist, deep dive, navigation, [View Full Entry]

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Pemba l' île aux odeurs de clou de girofles et de cannelle. Lorsque nous revenions à la fin de la journée de notre plongée endormie sur les roulis du Dow (bâteau typique de cette région), moi ce qui me réveillais; était cette brise venant de l'île, chargé d' effluve exotique, nous pouvions dire:" Je sens la rentrée...!" [View Full Entry]

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On Friday I headed back to Tanga, spent a few hours there getting the last of my stuff together and visiting Sarah who has been really ill in hospital with malaria. Then I flew out to Pemba where I met up with Charlotte at Swahili Divers. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t even intend to go to Pemba, but I couldn’t get a flight to Zanzibar straight away so I thought I’d spend a couple of days on Pemba before heading onwards. It was a good choice however, Pemba is spectacular! The place I was staying, Swahili Divers, was really [View Full Entry]

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