| Kieth Dixon in his article “ Family holiday to the | | | | they rest watching the sun setting down hill. The |
| Jade Sea” is an inspiring experience worth | | | | camp is well organized fruit and vegetables are |
| noting. He describes it as follows: Forty eight cans | | | | hung up in hammocks the keg is chilled and they |
| of baked beans, six boxes of oranges, twenty | | | | relax into easy days of fishing, water skiing, |
| five kegs of Tusker bear, thirty cases of UHT | | | | swimming, walking, reading and sleeping out under |
| milk four 4* 4s, one trailer, three rubber duck | | | | the stars, hanging grimly to their sleeping bags in a |
| boats, one speed boat, three wind surfers, two | | | | windy tug of war and raising each morning with |
| kayaks and a monster ten ton truck, two drums | | | | the early sun. An afternoon trip of volcanically |
| of diesel and fifteen drums of petrol, four families | | | | sculpted south islands the thrill of catching a 30kg |
| that is twenty people, one cook, three handy | | | | Nile Perch a total of 800 kg is caught most is |
| men one truck driver and a major expedition. | | | | given to the local Turkana people. Packing up is |
| Three dusty days from Nairobi and months of | | | | done in an afternoon, the lorry driven up the sand |
| planning and preparation they reach the refreshing | | | | dunes in the cool of the evening. A final swim of |
| shores of Lake Turkana our African Safari is on | | | | yellow rocks and then homeward bound up the |
| course. They launch the speedboat and a small | | | | sun burned blackend steppe through Horr valley |
| party goes north by water as the rest continue | | | | across the deserted Baragoi plains climbing uphill |
| the 2hr drive past Loyangalani to ‘our’ | | | | into Maralal and so back into civilization. This is |
| beach. Hours are spent digging and pushing out | | | | definitely worth a try. |
| the vehicles out of the sand and finally exhausted | | | | |