Mangrove mayhem

Dear all,

What a day again! It was time to give back to the community and we did that very well. We had to get up early and eat a big breakfast to ensure we could sustain our effort.

In the morning, we walked down through the village to get to the conservancy area: open beaches, mangroves and coconut trees were in the background. We dug to reinforce a fish pond, we made the board walk longer in the hope of attracting more tourists to this beautiful area.

Soldiers hard at work

Injured Alex does not care!

Kenny, our driver, is teaching the "four" girls
how to saw...

Bang, bang, bang!

We were certainly outclassed by the village ladies

Cheyenne + mud = only for charity!
The soft feet bribe worked!

Carl and his new hobby

This afternoon, we went around the village to realise the impact Camp Kenya has had. Then, it was our turn to help by planting 300 trees in the school backyard. Let's go green!!!

Kavi gets a booboo... awwwww...

From Ben's point of view...
All of us!!

All for one, one for the trees

Salwa gets right in there!

Ladies' fancy gardener!

Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work we go!!!

Speech time at the end of the planting.
Apparently, we are awesome!

Miss Zupan, she is taking her home!

We have no proof that we did it, but our swim in the mangrove was a brilliant final touch to our working day. We almost got Toby confused with a monkey and the splashes made everyone laugh.

After all this, we managed to finish all the yummy food and we coped with another evening without TV!

Tomorrow more community service in the morning and 40 Thieves all afternoon. This is going to rock!

Good night to all.

The Helping crew

PS: Mrs and Mr Nyang'aya, although not on the pics today, Hazel is still alive but slightly gone off stage!