Young and old, local and tourists gather here every evening to enjoy the views across the aquamarine Indian Ocean on the one side and the House of Wonders on the other.
A glossy brochure for Garden City in Nairobi, which includes 400-plus flats and townhouses, boasts: "From the aquamarine water of the heated swimming pool to the ultra-modern fitted kitchen, solid bamboo flooring and glass balcony balustrades, quality is the defining characteristic of the Garden City Village".
Vivid magenta, sky blue and a deep aquamarine are hardly colours that bring to mind the classical galleries of the Royal Academy in London, but for this year's Summer Exhibition – now in its 247th year – the bland white walls have been scrapped for an altogether jazzier colour scheme.
In Sri Lanka I have stared out from an unnamed beach shack on stilts at the aquamarine waters of the Indian Ocean and watched fishermen haul in their catch for the day's shellfish curry.
That streak of aquamarine across the river is a glorious sight.
But we wanted to have a laugh tonight, for once, because it's the weekend," said David, 17. Fofana wore a jewel-blue dress to match her aquamarine hair extensions, and smiled shyly at David's compliments as they joined a group of sharply dressed friends at the Fatou Rose hotel, the town's crown jewel, whose tiled façade rises two storeys above the dusty streets.
All the planes in progress are coloured aquamarine.
Here, unmoored from the roistering atmosphere of earlier plays, the words occasionally feel too precious: "a chapel of cloud", a sunset "aquamarine to an iris ring of obsidian".
The huge new power stations rising at this northern port evoke modern Dutch design, with rectilinear Mondrian-like turbine housings and aquamarine lights.
"The amount of traffic at the jewellery stands is incomparable to the other booths," said Lee Siegelson, a jewellery dealer from New York who was displaying this visitor's favourite piece: an aquamarine and ruby necklace given by Cole Porter to his wife Linda, on sale for £3m.
It now glistens with a range of blues, from aquamarine to dark navy.
