Old fishing boats are docked in the Mombassa harbor. Muscular black men sit atop wooden barrels along the wharf, beer bottles in hand, gossiping, reliving the morning's sail.
He had sailed for two hours, resting in the stern and sometimes chewing a bit of the meat from the marlin, trying to rest and to be strong, when he saw the first of the two sharks.
There are some original buildings here but most of the area has been modernised and is now used as a harbour for all kinds of sea craft including yachts and some amazing power boats.
They gathered together temperature readings collected by everything from a 19th-century voyage of British naval ships to modern automated ocean probes.
In 1699 she sailed with her daughter nearly 5,000 miles from the Netherlands to South America to study insects in the jungles of what is now known as Suriname.