Smugglers Vilanculos

... June 8&#8212;Wake up, say goodbye to Angie, Paul, and Simon, go for a run with Ray. Come back for breakfast. Go to 5 mile reef with Bruce for snorkeling, with fishing before and after. Some weather rolled in as we were headed back which lead to a very very very wet and rough ride on the way back... I almost felt as though I was freezing by the time I got back because I was soaked and the wind was howling. <br><br>June 9-- the weather that we encountered the day before ...

... you ascend quite quickly. Furtunately for him we were right next to him when it happened and we grabbed him and held him down (emptying our bcd's for air to make us heavier) while Christian fitted his belt again. All in a days work. We had a packed lunch on the island with Paul and Amy before doing our second dive and afterwards we headed back to Vilanculos. We had a really nice dinner at the backpackers before going to bed early excited about going to Zimbabwe.

... journey? Oh yeah, Raybans, my medal and a dressing gown over my clothes. Awesome. Photo being uploaded (you'll note we have started to add a few to some earlier blogs). Sunrise came with the admission from the staff that no replacement had been called. Whilst a near mutiny developed we both wondered where the driver had gone. Easy. Ten minutes later he's back with four very twitchy armed policemen. At this point we decide to get our bags and hitch ...

... with no food and little water to speak of, and quitting for the day seemed a crazy concept. Heading into a roadsid restaurant, I walked up to a table of Portugese speakers, and asked who owned the semi 18 wheeler out in the parking lot. Identifying this driver, and indicating that I wanted a ride to Chimoio, the guy (whose name i still dont know as result of his lack of English and my incoherent sense of Portugese) showed me he wanted ...

... almost 2 years ago and works for a company called African Impact which organizes volunteer projects all over Africa. Claire, Jude and Stacey (3 very cool fun British ladies) live in VIlanculos full time and run the projects. Anna also works for the company and goes from one project to another all over Africa making sure everything is on track. Anyway, they drove us to their "camp" which was amazing. It's right on the beach - beautiful blue water - and consists of about 7 ...

... Before we left Malawi we went on a Village tour. It was so sad. Four out of every ten kids die from malnutrition , AIDS and Malaria and most people often do not eat more than one meal a day and there are loads of child headed households. The local school is hopelessly under-resourced- so much so that Sarah , one of the other girls, and I almost volunteered to stay and ...

... diving was incredible as we saw 2 turtles and one shark and the usual suspects of kazillions of different colouredy fish but the journey back was a different story as we came back through a storm( my first rain of the day) and it was quite a hairy ride when the weather disimproved the options became limited and my tanning time seriously diminished but luckily it wasnt raining and i managed to catch up on a bit of much needed hammock time

The Geologic Base camp foreman, George Supra, was our main man that helped us with everything that we needed. Let it be as intricate as finding a special fitting to complete a the job to the simple daily task of driving do the location, he did it all for us. He was able to do so, since the next Geologic Survey phase would not be for another 3 months. With that, the ...

Mozambeque is Angola's sister Portuguese colony on the Eastern Coast of Africa along the Indian Ocean. The four week job I did here was what my 12 year contracted Scottish supervisor Jason would call a "paid vacation" and the "easiest job I've ever been on." It also pays to have those 12 yrs of confidence. I was quite a bit nervous. The job though really wasn't that bad. We ...

... the little bugger today. We donºt need the extra weight. We hoped to have photos to add today to this blog but I forgot the cord in Johannesburg. So we will try to get that fixed up, but it may be a while, but donºt worry we both look the same (although a bit dirtier and wetter). Thanks for al the responses weºve had, itºs been great to get all your messages, we donºt have time to respond to all of them, but we will try. Take Care Love Craig, Catherine and Gulliver