Spent most of the time reading, relaxing, planning our Ethiopia, South Africa and Namibia trip. Then some kayaking just down the road. Saw some new birds (darter cormorant, with long, yellow neck), grey herons, night herons, green bee eater, possibly parakeets, and two water monitor lizards.
That evening we had s lot of trouble getting across how much lobster we wanted and how much it would cost. They price it per kilogram, but we wanted less, maybe 400 grams, and the conversation went a bit like the “Who’s on first?” routine with an added language barrier. Once we ordered the son zipped away on the scooter to buy it at the waterfront. Overall very disappointing at this highly rated place (we get faked out by this regularly) except the lobster. Lesson learned. Get the grilled fresh seafood!
Next morning, 5:40am alarm for birding in the nearby lagoon. Inexpensive, very quiet (no motors, they pole the catamaran around), peaceful, fun.
We saw:
- Stork billed kingfisher
- Crimson backed goldenback
- Rose ringed parakeet
- Common kingfisher
- Pheasant tailed jacana
- Indian pond heron
- Spoonbill
- Purple swamp hen
- Little egret
- Cattle egret
- Grey headed fish eagle
- Blue tailed bee eater
- Purple sunbird
- Black hooded oriole
- Asian quail
- Oriental magpie robin
- Common mynah
- Wattled lapwing
- Sunbird
- Paddy field pippet
- Read vented bulbul
- Jungle fowl
- Yellow bittern
- Jungle prinia
- Black winged stilt
- Great egret
- Lesser whistling duck
Here is where we stayed:
