Pembe Abwe- October 27th- November 3

In Pembe Abwe we stayed in Bandas. They were kind of like cabins, but open, with only screens, and elevated off the ground. The one I stayed in had a toilet and a shower inside of it. We spent the week snorkeling. We went to a reef about forty-five minutes away from where we were staying, by boat. The reef we went to most of the days was called Maziwi. It is a protected area, and noone is allowed to fish there. Enforcement is problematic though, because the government organization who is supposed to be enforcing it, isn't really doing so. Some of the cooler things I saw were sea turtles, rays, and a stone fish. I took an identification test on some of the fish in the water. That was probably one of the cooler academic parts of the week. On Saturday, we did something called a reef check. During a reef check, 6 people count the organisms in a specific area. Two people counted fish, two counted certain invertebrates, and myself and my partner documented the other stuff that was along a 100m area. Every five meters there was a mark, and we dropped a weight where the mark was, and then documented what kind of sea life was below the mark. It was an interesting experience. On Sunday we had a written test, went snorkeling, and then had the afternoon off. On Monday, we drove, in a bus and a land rover, from Pembe Abwe, to the safari company's camp outside of Arusha. On Thursday, we depart into the Serengeti for the safari part of our journey.