The tale of a whale shark (and a sack of flipflops)…
The season has begun and what a start! Following Hannah’s blog post yesterday on this rather obscure project that we are all very excited with, I could not resist sharing the beginning of the epic journey of Papa Pata Pata (Father Flipflop)…If you have no clue what I am on about, you will just have to wait and see what lies ahead at Camp Kenya’s Ocean Camp…
Meanwhile enjoy the photos! 
Benson and team welding the frame together. Benson put this together in three days flat!
As you can imagine, the journey from our office to the beach camp was quite an adventure in itself
Hannah’s getting ready for silverstone!
Home Sweet home with Fadili.
Now the emporer needs some new clothes
What this space…
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July 5th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Brilliant! You now need to make another frame to permanently fit on the jeep! That would look great going across the Mombasa ferry…
July 13th, 2009 at 9:27 am
[...] covered completely with flipflops picked up from the beach. This little creature whom we have named Papa Pata Pata (Father fliflop) has been inspired by a project I worked on a few years ago and you can find out more about that [...]
July 15th, 2009 at 8:05 am
[...] Aside from all the other exciting projects that Camp Kenya is involved with this summer, one of the most exciting funky little projects we have initiated is building a life size whale shark out of recycled flipflops picked off the beaches here! Yup! [...]
August 5th, 2009 at 8:07 am
[...] Papa Pata Pata… [...]
August 8th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
[...] of the Mfalme project and he alerted me to two new fabulous art projects he and others from Camps International’s Kenyan groups have [...]
July 15th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
[...] of our local artist, Benson (some of you may remember our first flipflop whaleshark – click HERE) and, eager as he was to get going, Fadhili thought it was better to begin mastering the art of [...]