Tanzania: Peponi Beach. Day off to catch up with laundry.

Friday 13^th March

Peponi Beach Resort, Tanzania: 

Had a nice lazy start to the day & woke up to look out at the sea. It was a beautiful & a  very welcome sight. 

Dusty is parked in the shade so having a well deserved day off too.



Breakfast was buffet style; fruit, tea & toast. We’ve decided we’re having a day off here, right on the beach, with a gentle sea breeze blowing. However, it’s time to do some laundry and as in most places on this trip, when you put laundry in, it is hand washed. I’ve noticed it’s not always done very well so I decided I’d wash my own & John said he’d do his own as well. We have everything we need, including washing powder for hand washing, even clothes pegs as well.

The washing facility was by the camp site so we set to work. And, work it was. It took me nearly two hours to do all my hand washing as I had accumulated a lot since the last service wash. We had a great area for hanging them all out to dry as well. I actually had 3 showers during the process, it was so hot. The final one was to rinse my bath towel and it was easier to do that in the shower. Pleased with all my hard work, it’s time for lunch and a beer, but first a 1.5 litre bottle of water, to replace the lost fluids.

The rest of the day was spent relaxing. I met two guys from London who’d just rode in on their  BMW F800GS motorbikes (yes, I know there’s a lot of detail there but I like that particular model!). They left London just after Christmas and were on their way to Cape Town. The first mishap they had was both bikes blowing their shock absorbers on the corrugated section from Ethiopia to Kenya. They (bikes too) got a lift on a truck for the 300 kms or so to Nairobi, to get the shocks replaced. One of them had fallen off his bike a few times, the last time being in deep mud. His bike was showing some wear & tear, bent crash bars, broken foot pedal but they were very enthusiastic about the journey so far. Sounds very much like Charlie Boorman & Ewen McGregor  in "The Long Way Down" TV series that followed their adventure from John O'Groats in Scotland to Cape Town. 

Later, I lazed on the hammock, reading ‘The Gate House’ a book by Nelson Demille.

Later still, washing was brought in off the line, some not quite dry, so hung on a line at my own Banda. It would be dry in the morning. Dinner was served at 7.30 & we met up with Donald & Dennis, the two bikers from London, and chatted for a couple of hours. Back to the Banda, repacked with some more order to my bags & off to bed.

A mossie free bed