Postcard shots taken on my mobile phone

Stevedores bringing charcoal ashore at Old Dhow Harbour

Classic sunset and dhow from palm fringed Traveller's beach

Makame and Mzee have a boat to sell

Matemwe guesthouse

Afternoon football at Kilima Juu, Matemwe

At 4pm barefoot youngsters carry their football boots to the beach

Time for exercise and showing off

I didn't notice if there was a referee

Reserves bench

Making mkeka matting, Kilima Juu, Matemwe

Colour strips of platted grass are sewn together to make a mat.

Some colours are from natural sources - others from a bottle

Water supply at Kilima Juu, Matemwe

I notice laundry drying everywhere

but the local wells have only salty water

and then the water has to be carried home - 20 litres is 20 kilos

Matemwe Beach

Ngalawa fishing boat with Mnemba Island on the horizon

More ngalawa fishing boats

Classical view of a tropical beach

Beautiful titan shells - for sale

lunchtime view

Stone Town scenes, Zanzibar

Peanuts and tumeric in the soft afternoon sunlight

Boys on bikes - stop and pose

Mangapwani, Zanzibar

Somewhere along here is a cave

... and Aida is going to find it (again?)

Views offshore Stone Town

A woman at low-tide scavenging among the exposed coral on Bawe Island

Fshermen checking their traps, near Bawe Island

An ngalawa, racing home.

Fishing by line from a dugout canoe, off Stone Town

Ngalawa race at Unguja Ukuu Pwani

The leading ngalawa - ahead by a long way

and eventually the rest of the field arriving

and the good vibe continues

Muungoni Mangroves

sunshine and mangroves

A member of egrit family on Kisiwa Ndege (Bird Island)

new growth

Boatman Jaku

Jambiani moods

East coast sunrise, then swim

Magnificent Jambiani palms

Lunchtime view, three schoolboys done for the day

Jambiani shoreline activity

Women off to tend their seaweed plantations

Controlled fire to burn off the algae on an ngalawa

Woman with a load on her mind in the heat of the day

Jambiani close-ups

close-up seaweed drying in the late afternoon sunshire

close-up tree trunk lying on the beach

Homemade

homemade hummus and homemade bread close-up

Stone Town rooftops

Wedding vows Swamad and Mariam

The father of the bride and the groom Swamad

The bride Mariam awaiting

The bride's hands decorated with henna

Swamad Ibrahim and Mariam Mzee, finally together