Day 0.5 - Camel on the Beach!

 Let me start with 4 words… camel on the beach!!!

A.      Kenya has camels. News to me. I wrongfully assumed that camels were a desert thing.

B.      Camels go to the beach like people do. What? Really? Um… yeah, they do!

C.      They just are chillin’ out there like it is no big thing. Yup, that’s right. Right in the middle of a soccer game on the beach… camel.

Anyway, so later in the afternoon, I walked down the beach with Benson and got my very first view of the Indian ocean. Nyali beach (close to the house where I’m staying) is stunning. The water is really clear, very few waves, and incredibly fine sand.

Now a special note to Mary… I can say with the utmost confidence that I was the whitest person on that beach by far and now know what that feels like. It is weird for sure. Can’t say I liked that feeling either.  But both on the beach and off, I feel somewhat like a novelty. I stick out for sure. For example, on the way home from the beach, a little girl who was probably about 4 or so beamed when she saw me. She made it a point to drag her family (her father and 3 boys who didn’t seem much older) over to talk to me. I’m not sure if she wanted to practice English or just get a closer look at the person who so obviously didn’t fit in. It was incredibly sweet and cute either way and I appreciate the honesty that comes with childhood.

·         *A little side note about pictures… I took pictures of the beach (including the 2 camels there) but because I had left the SD card for my camera at the house the pictures saved to internal memory. And I didn’t bring the cord that lets you upload the pictures form the camera to the computer without the SD card. Woops! I promise to take more pictures when I go to the beach and/or post the ones I have later.