Campling - Nancy, a particularly beautiful girl …….. Nancy was engaged to Teddy Cunningham, a farmer and white hunter, who was tragically killed by an angry elephant, and her next suitor (and indeed future husband) was Bunny Wise, a good-looking policeman from Nairobi.

Habari 27 - Nancy Wise died in Nairobi on May 17 1994. She will be remembered with affection by many for her years working in Special Branch Headquarters, Nairobi, where she was so helpful to many.

Coastweek 6-12 September 1991 - Obituary of Dan Trench …….. In an interview, Mrs. Nancy (Ann) Wise, Dan’s sister, said ‘my father came to Kenya’ in 1914 as a coffee advisor from the British Government. My mother and I followed early 1915 after spending Christmas in the UK’. In 1923 we were one of the first families to come to the coast for a holiday, taking over a house which belonged to a CMS missionary at Freretown, Mombasa. These holidays continued until we went to school.     

In 1934 my uncle found a plot next to Jadini and thus introduced us to Diani Beach.     It was beautiful and had a most fantastic forest.     We bought the plot next door soon after.     We had to hack our way through the bush to get there and our holiday house had three rooms and a verandah with two changing rooms for boys and girls Many friends came to stay. Said Nancy if we did not have room for them my mother used to say go and chop some coconut palm and we will make a place for you to sleep’. The family acquired other land and their holiday house named ‘Jadini’ grew as it attracted guests not only from Kenya but the UK and South Africa many of whom would book a particular cottage a year ahead.     

Nancy mentioned that one day she had been sitting on the verandah about two in the morning, it being too hot to sleep, and happened to see a dark shape approach.     She asked whose dog is that’.     Said Nancy, as it walked passed me I realized it was a leopard! Water was a big problem, which they helped solve themselves by building a garage-cum-store with a corrugated iron roof. They dug a well and this became their water catchment area. Initially buckets of water were having to be carried to the hotel. Later it was piped. Said Nancy 'my mother was among the first to put up a big fight to get a water supply from Kwale to this area’. At that time there was only a narrow sandy track between Jadini and Likoni and if anything approached one or other vehicle had to get out of the way. Motorised ferries at Likoni could only take four big cars and six small ones at a time.