IMAGES: On the Beach

Trip Start Aug 18, 2005

Trip End Feb 20, 2006

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Flag of Tanzania Zanzibar, Tanzania
Thursday, December 29, 2005

Having now moved to a landlocked country, I have developed an incessant thirst for water.

The pleasures of the Zanzibari coast offered a glorious respite: the lullaby of waves coming and going, the feeling of grains of sand flowing between toes, walking along the soft padding of the shore, the delight of the cool salty ocean spray...

Against light gradually vanishing as evening approaches, an orchard of mangrove juts out in peculiar patterns from the flat sandy banks.

In the cool mornings, the receding water leaves behind a marvelous anthology of creatures-both human-made and all-natural...

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