That morning Ray and Joe woke at 6 am to walk to town and try and get money. Ray's atm card was not useful in any of the machines in southern Tanzania. The rest of us got up slowly, and had a breakfast of eggs and bread (Joseph had brought a loaf of bread and a huge german sausage from Ndanda to the beach house). We called two taxis to take us to Mikindani. Of course, the taxis ran out of gas as soon as we all piled in, and we had to wait for another car to bring enough gas to get us to the destination - this happened on almost every taxi trip we took, Tanzanians do not keep gas in their cars.
We went to the Eco 2 Dive Shop in Mikindani(http://www.eco2tz.com/) where Isabella from England and two boat men took us from the "Yacht Club" to a dive reef about a mile off of the Southern Cross Hotel. Beautiful coral and fish , but not as exciting as the sea snake and spiny fish we had seen the day before. We dropped off Ray, Dan and Kyle at the shore and rode the boat back to the yacht club. Had sodas at the Travlers Rest, a guest house while waiting for the biagio to take us back again to the fish market. For dinner we had squid, octupus and a hard white fish - marginal. After dinner we were just settling in when Mr. Lulukila, Joseph's principle at the school, called and asked us to meet him for drinks at the Southern Cross. He had come to town that day because the school had no electricity, and no money. The state had not sent the budgeted money. So the state run electrical company cut off the electricity, and the students were living without electricity. He had hoped to convince the electrical authorities to turn the electricity back on. From what we saw in the next few days, that was not going to happen.
Daniel, Kyle, Joe and I went and spent some time with Mr Lulukila that night. Then walked back the quarter mile in the pitch dark. I think it might have rained a bit that night.
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