THE DOG WHO LOVED IT TOO

When the Medjumbe resort was established in the early 2000s, there was nothing there save a few old fishing huts and a dog, a ridgeback.

The dog was fit and healthy and, so the story goes, was pulling fish out of the sea as a bear would out of a river.

Not wanting a dog on the island, the developers took it to another little island, much like Medjumbe, but some four or five kilometres away, where they thought it could carry on fending for itself. It escaped, and swam back to Medjumbe.

Today, it is said to be living somewhere on the mainland with another dog for company. But what I like about the tale is not only that it thought to brave the swim, but that it did.

And after spending some time on the island, I think I know why. —