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Written by Daniel Orr
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Tuesday, 02 August 2011 13:13 |
August 2, 2011 …to Korogwe
It is very hard to stop looking and write. Brendan woke at 5:30 and took a bus ahead of us to Korogwe. Joe, Mary and I were served breakfast at the hotel then walked to the ocean and fish market. We were impressed when Mary side-stepped a dead rat without any reaction. When we got to the ocean a ferry was loading hundreds of people to cross over to an island (not Zanzibar). We came upon a fish market that was amazing: fish with turquoise spots, 2-foot long pink fish, squid, octopus, shark, red snapper, a skate 5 feet across, shrimp. A near-by shop had dried star fish, shells, and a dried hollow blow fish the size of a soccer ball.
What is most surprising to me everywhere is the number of people. At the hotel one person took my shillings for water, handed them to another person who handed her the change. She asked yet a third person for change for one bill. Is not only the number of people but their interaction. On a fishing boat there was a crew bigger than I think I would see on a boat of its size in the States. Everyone is busy getting the fish into 5 gallon plastic buckets that boys were carrying to shore. On the drive, Cosmas, our driver, stopped once and relied on a young fella to help him back up our large safari vehicle and turn around. People everywhere, ready to respond.
The sights between Dar es Salaam and Korogwe are fascinating, fascinating, fascinating. When traffic is stopped in the city you can buy everything from jumper cables to boxer shorts right out the window from the men filtering back through the cars and busses. There are many beautiful work bicycles: 3 wheeled, 2 wheeled with baskets hauling incredible loads, and bicycles with little motors. I would go on but I might loose readership. In Dar there seemed to be almost as many steel hand carts on the road as bicycles. It pained me to see a man pushing over 300 lb of soda in his heavy steel cart. Where is the aluminum? Where are the bicycle trailers? Where are the entrepreneurs? There are some ingenious looking motorcycle trucks.
We saw Okra!
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