Flights to Mombasa

Besides Condor, the Swiss Airline Edelweiss and the German Airline Airberlin offer direct flights to Mombasa.
Edelweiss starts from Zuerich, Airberlin from Duesseldorf.
You can find more Information on http://edelweissair.com/ and http://www.airberlin.com/
(www.condor.com)

1st place at Eye Go Fishing Competition

Like in the last year, Harshil Raval dominated the Eye Go Fishing Competition in Mtwapa. With 11 Sailfish (all of them were tagged and released) and one Black Marlin he had an outstanding catch and marked the first place.

Tuna Season 2008

The Tuna Season is at it's peak! This year we have caught the most Tuna since 5 years.

The pictures show last Sunday's catch: 6 Yellowfin Tuna around 25kg.

New Bridge and Interior for Arielle

The new fly-bridge is optimized for a good view around the boat. Windows will be added to the light and strong fiberglas-construction during the next days.

In addition to the fly-brigde, we renewed the interior design with new and more comfortable resting places.

Baloo is in the dock

We are using the time in the low-season to overhaul Baloo. She was fitted with two overhauled engines and right now she is in the dock for a new underwater painting.

Decreasing hotel prices

The room rates in Mombasa's hotels have been decreasing constantly since February. Offers for 3-star and 4-star hotels starting around 30€/person (all inclusive, double room)!
Source: german booking site http://www.ab-in-den-urlaub.de/

You can download a pdf-file with hotels in the surrounding of the fishing base on my homepage:
http://www.kenya-fishing.com/Hotels_near_Walter_Brun.pdf

The reason for the decreasing room rates was Kenya's bad press concerning the presidential elections in February. The fanatic supporters of the two competing parties ran a few riots in Nairobi which is 560km away from our fishing base in Mombasa. Overall we didn't feel any consequences of the riots at the coast. In Nairobi itself, only party supporters were harmed and no tourists or foreigners.
All of my regular customers confirm that they don't feel any change in comparison to their previous holidays.

Raval's catches in February

February was an extraordinary fishing-month.
My friend Harshil Raval from Mtwapa fished on four Sundays in February and caught:

4x Marlin
12x Sailfish

He fished 3 days on Baloo and 1 day on Nala.

311kg Blue Marlin

A great start into the year:

In mid February, we caught a 311 kg Blue Marlin!!!

This is the second biggest billfish that was caught in the season 2007/08 by a fishing boat at the coast!

Elevated exhaust outlets work since 3 months

Our first elevated exhaust outlet was brought into service three months ago.

As a result of which, far less of our novelty clients became sea sick. Our experienced fishermen/women, who are used to boats without these new exhausts, are enthusiastic about the new construction.