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Mozambique – Ponta d’Ouro

Posted on April 30th, 2009 by Mark  |  No Comments »

Wow! What a lekker place!

We popped over there for a few days to swim with the Dolphins, Whalesharks, dive with zambezi sharks and do a bit of kiting. Well I got to do ALL of those things!

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The water was 26 degrees. At 39.1meters with the Zambezi it was 24degress – awesome! We dived with The Whaler and did some swimming with Dolphins with Dolphin Encounters

We had some stunning prawns at the one restaurant on the hill, although rather pricey. Everything is still in rands because nearly all goods come from South Africa. It was amazing to see how 1st world SA is, we got to the border post on a nice tar road and then went through the post into super sandy tracks, NO tar.

I was rather bummed by the annoying jetskiers from joburg who would drive fast right up next to people, some of which you could see boozing on the beach from 8am. A lady drowned whilst we were there and the local guys said that drownings had become a regular issue. Some of the local divers and dolphin encounters ran a lifeguard service (for free) and were shut down by the Mozam government – go figure.

Anyway, it was a super trip, flew to Durbs and then hired car, stayed in St Lucia for the night and then parked the car at the border post, walked through and was fetched by Dolphin Encounters – we had a lekker stay and allround it was a brilliant break.