Thursday, 24 March 2016

Kizimkazi (again)

Kizimkazi beach (after kazikazi fishermen have left)

Karamba crab

Kizimkazi dolphin trip

Kizimkazi dolphin trip

Children scouring the Kizimkazi shoreline

Wednesday, 23 March 2016

Uzi portraits

portrait local man on Uzi Island

portrait local boys on Uzi Island

portrait local girl on Uzi Island

portrait local girls on Uzi Island

Uzi Old Mosque

Thought to be one of the oldest mosques on Zanzibar



Uzi coconut experience

portrait local girl preparing coconut on Uzi Island

portrait local man climbing coconut tree on Uzi Island

portrait Mohammed and child sharing coconut on Uzi Island

Uzi Island culture tour preparing coconut

Uzi dugout canoes

Uzi Island fishermen with fishtraps in dugout canoes

Uzi women seaweed farmers in dugout canoe

Tuesday, 22 March 2016

Ngalawa ride

Ngalawa sail made from rice sacks

portrait boatman Haji on Jambiani sailing trip

portrait Captain Zapy on Jambiani sailing trip

Saturday, 19 March 2016

East Coast

The Rock Restaurant at Pingwe

Boy walking past tassi fish hanging to dry outside seaweed weighing station at Jambiani

boys fishing below hotel jetty at Jambiani

local girls walking along beach at Jambiani

Sunday, 7 February 2016

Kizimkazi portraits

The day before, Munira said "if I'd known you were coming I would have baked a cake"... of course I returned the next day and there it was waiting. I asked if she had made it with love? she said "no, cardamom"

and here's Maryam, assistant cake maker and Munira's best friend from school

portrait Kizimkazi girl

passers-by: "here, take our photo" - with hats like that, who could refuse?

Friday, 5 February 2016

Kizimkazi beach + boys

Kizimkazi Dimbani beach - nowadays local fishermen prefer fibre boats (imported from Dubai)

Seasonal fishermen (from north Zanzibar) using a traditional dugout "dao" (rhymes with "cow")
and attracting the interest of local children



Simple words

Elimu Kwanza (Education first) painted name on ngalawa
Pole Pole Kazi Mbele (Go Slowly Work Ahead) road works sign
Uliza Hapa (Ask Here) sign on upturned boat

Sunday, 31 January 2016

Stone Town waterfront

Stone Town waterfront viewed from Pange sandbank

Jahazi sailing past Serena hotel with "old Stone Town" behind

Saturday, 30 January 2016