Fish

I have found an underwater camera!  I'm not sure what it is about human nature, but there is something intrinsically satisfying in sharing an experience.  I have travelled a fair bit, but doing it by yourself just doesn't do the experience justice.  I remember driving though the crowded streets and heavy traffic of early morning Bucharest, just trying to find my way out of the city, before heading up into Transylvania's mountains to visit Bran and Brasov, brutally cold, fresh after a heavy snowfall, narrow roads and big trucks and steep grades and hairpin turn after hairpin turn, and I would have given anything for a sympathetic soul to share the adventure.  Sharing just brings an unquantifiable aspect to everything one does.  Hence the camera.  Perhaps a poor substitute, but when the only other option is to forego the adventure, better to go anyway and take plenty of pictures.

The internet has been incredibly bad.  While at work I get occasional glimpses into the world wide web, and I then try desperately to catch up on work emails, and I often lose connectivity half way through and perhaps swear a little bit, but I try to realign my persectives and find something else to do.  It's somehow satisfying to have to get up and walk away from a computer.  Go for a walk, read a book, go for a swim.

The clownfish don't seem to be as happy to see me as I am to see them.  Very territorial.  But it always makes my day to pay them a visit, and buddy gets a chance to impress his mate by scaring off a threat hundreds of times his size.  I have some great video but the internet is just too slow.

Have you ever seen a mistake coming, from like a mile away, and walk into it anyway?  Either not caring about the consequence or wondering how'd you cope if it all went to hell.  I DO IT ALL THE TIME.  I took this job thinking that I wanted to see East Africa, but I knew I'd have my hands full.  The manager gig.  I didn't really see that coming, but like I said in my first post, if someone else is doing it, or has done it, how hard can it be?  Just get on with it.  I'm keeping my head above water, at present anyway, bring on the challenge and see how I cope.  Today I was wondering.  Seriously wondering.  But what is life without a little adventure?

I'm enjoying life in Mtwara, flying and swimming, and the people.  As crews rotate in and out you can watch how the dynamic shifts and changes.  It's fun to watch, and to see how one's self fits into the equation.  I wish there was a heck of alot more flying though.....

Tomorrow lunch at Livingstone's old place.   And volleyball at 5pm.