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Trip Start
Aug 26, 2006
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Trip End
Feb 2007
Sodwana Bay,
South Africa
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Well the roadtrip started the following morning, all be it with a few minor gliches. Such as visas being expensive and also another girl now joining the roadtrip. Now you would think a roadtrip would be quality with me being the only bloke.....wrong. 5 hours in a confind space with 4 girls was enjoyable and torture at the same time. I think grease come on the radio at one point and all girleyness took over!!! Anyways we arrive in sodwana(not mozambique) eventually, to find that divings rubbish due to a storm, so decide that we should spend the night there and head for the border the next day to Mozambique. We also had to sleep in a tent in a reserve with roaming Hippo so that was pretty cool......
Next morning get to the border only to discover all the roads on the Mozambique side are like tracks through sand dunes and to much of a challenge for our standard hire car. So we leave the car at the border and get into Mozambique all be it by a few feet. After 1 hour trying to hitch the 10kms to where we want to go, we decide to try and ring hostels in the area to pick us up. Sadly no one wanted to answer there fones??!!! 2 hours pass still no one, by which time we have set up a picnic between the 5 of us right under the counter where they stamp your passport!! Now the border people startgetting annoyed and start ringing people for us! Still another hour passes and finally a guy turns up to pick us up. Only thing was we didnt even ring the company and he claims we spoke to him??! Not that i really cared, very grateful in fact..... We drive for ten minutes through beatiful countryside, shacks a plenty and kids yelling and waving,all the while sand roads and then we arrive at the best beach i,ve seen since thailand. However we try to book diving and its like the people are incoherent or the weeds really strong. But the dive school gave the impression they just couldnt be arsed to dive??!! Finally get that sorted, also arrange to go swimming with dolphins the next morning. However the dolphin dive turned into a bit of a circus as a film crew where on board for some tv programme over here. So they start telling us what the score is, that they get in the water first, etc... To which i was just going "No we paid the same money""get your own boat" and generally winding them up. So out we went see some dolphins, they jump in dolphins swim away!! Sadly we didnt see anymore dolphins but got dumped on reef to snorkel round. Which was full of jellyfish so everyones getting stung to buggery, all the while the cameraman on the boats giving it "come on move closer together" to which i yell "fuck off" and "poke your camera up your arse" sure he can dub it out.haha. Also tried a load of portugese food whilst here as it has a very portugese influence and is the local language. However the food rocked my stomach and a few toilet sittings where needed. Then spent the next few days going for a dive or 2 and kicking back on the beach, even a booze cruise seemed like to much effort.On one though i ahd the 2 bob bits so couldnt dive. However whilst the girls where diving i spot a pod of dolphins and get the boat driver to drop me off in the middle of them. So i,m now snorkelling with a pod of about 20 dolphins all swimming around me and swooping upto me as close as an arms length away.Quality. The girls came up raving about there dive, but once hearing about mine they where fuming. Hows your luck.
Anyways people, later you know
Martin
