We sold the farm in 1962 as the land was to be taken over for African settlement.
Many of our neighbours opted to emigrate, but my wife, Maia and I were Kenya born, and loved this Country too much to move. we decide to try something different, possibly in Tourism.
Hi, I’m just back from a fishing safari to Lamu and Kiwayu with Daz Baynton from the UK. This was Daz’s 4th safari up north but he has done a few more to Pemba Island when we were able to go there freely. We also fished the North Kenya Banks both on the way up and on the way back with one overnight. The weather was not great and the fishing not up to previous years but still a most enjoyable safari with great company. (more…)
Having got back in to Malindi on Friday 16th October 2009 I had made the decision to enter the Malindi Festival now known as the Herbie Paul International Fishing Festival. My father, Pat would join me on the team and Hamisi would make up the 3rd angler.
It is fitting that the competition should be named after the late Herbie Paul who put so much time and effort in to making Malindi Sea Fishing Club what it is today. Herbie was one of the pioneers of Malindi fishing and will be held with great fondness by so many for many years to come.
I think I must be the oldest, still active, skipper on this Coast, with around 46 years of professional charter work behind me.
As a kid, I was always interested in all kinds of fishing, particularly fly fishing for trout, in the small river not far from the farm where I was born, at a place called Londiani, in the Kenya highlands.
The river ran through virgin forest, and was stocked with rainbow trout. It was a lovely peaceful place full of wildlife, birds and butterflies. Often, while fishing, one could see a bushbuck or duiker come down to the river to drink, or a troop of the mountain colobus swing through the treetops.
The trout were small, but occasionally, if one was lucky, a good two or three pounder would come to the fly. It was the perfect way to spend an evening.
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