I have been lazy and I should have typed this post yesterday.  We have three ports in three days and I am just now waiting for my tour of Mozambique and starting to type the post for Madagascar.

I also  celebrated my 73rd birthday and you can see my flowers I received from home and my peanut butter pie.  This is one of my favorite desserts but I didn’t realize we had two people allergic to peanuts so they ordered their own desserts.

We actually tendered into the small docks of Nosy Be, Madagascar, which is the largest island off the coast of the main island of Madagascar  and is part of the country. Madagascar is truly a third world country and very few people have running water and electricity.   These boats met us and people were throwing T-shirts, dollars, etc. and they would scoop up these items with nets or their hands.

Our mode of transportation was a large van with no air conditioning but we had a good driver and he spotted this Chameleon and backed up so we could see him.  He was about 8  inches long and about 3 inches around his belly.  Beautiful colors.  The female is said to be plain brown but we didn’t spot one.  The island is also known for its Lemurs but we saw none in the wild.  Only  lemurs we saw were the ones people were carrying and wanted a dollar to have our photos taken with the lemurs on our shoulders.  That is not for me especially since a friend was recently attacked by a monkey  in Malaysia.

The scenery was beautiful but I was more interested in taking photos of the people.