been busy the past few days re-familiarizing myself with the local geography... hitched a ride up to senga bay for a little beach camping and r&r on lake malawi
despite the forboding forecast (weather reports predicted a 96% chance of rain for the entire weekend, felix) i began my sunday with kayak out to lizard island (named for teal-blue giant water monitors that are the rainforested isalnd's only inhabitants). a 40 minute paddle against wind and waves found my kayak nestled between 2 rocks and hauled up beyond the frothy tide. dove in and swam a few hundred feet out to a flat-topped rock to perform a morning yoga series for an audience of diving birds and clouded skies. unfortunately, a massive black wall looming over mozambique was moving too quickly to be ignored, and the rock-scrambling i had planned for the rest of the morning was abandoned for furious paddling back to my camp. i wasnt half-way back when the first drops fell...
3 thunderstorms later, there was nothing dry left in my tent, and i sat soggily on the shore watching huge white wading birds navigate the weeping skies, and bone-drenched fishermen haul in a meager morning catch
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