Hippos in the Mara River. Occasionally, groups of up to five rhinos are flushed out of the Tana River delta and into the open sea. They are then belched into the Lamu Channel, some 80 km north. Photo/FILE
On a gusty late afternoon last month, on Lamu’s Shela beach, a dozen locals and tourists stand facing, not the calm azure of the Indian Ocean, but a churning dishwater shade more generally associated with rain-swollen rivers.
Crossed arms indicate they are waiting for something.
