Snorkeling, Solicitation, and Sunburns.

13 July 2010

Today kind of marked the end of my vacation. This morning mom and I went out on the glass bottom boat and I had my first underwater safari. I saw starfish, sea anemone, sea cucumbers, sting ray, and so much beautiful coral. It was absolutely beautiful. Then we went over to the sand bar and walked around as our guide pointed things out like sea spiders and soft coarl. We saw a GIANT dead clam’s shell too. It was so big.

However, as we returned the usual men all over the beach trying to sell you anything from a boat ride to key rings harassed us. To be honest, Mombasa would be beautiful and perfect were it not for the men swarming the beach. So I got stopped by one of these men on my walk back up to the hotel and guess what he was selling? Himself. Yeah, that’s right, a male prostitute tried to sell himself to me. He wanted to “meet up later.” When I said no he said “Why not? You’re old enough.” Gross. It was so uncomfortable. What a vacation.

The rest of the day I spent peacefully by the pool with the breeze from the ocean rolling gently over me. I lathered myself up with sunscreen and read and slept and swam. Sipped a delicious pina colada and loved my life. Little did I know that my lack of sunscreen during snorkeling would ruin my day.

That’s right, it didn’t even occur to me that my back would be out of the water when I went snorkeling, therefore…I now have a killer sunburn on my back.Over 20 new bug bites on my legs. A sore throat/cold. A killer sunburn. This is the best vacation EVER!