Ocean Safaris!

Trip Start Jul 24, 2006
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Trip End Oct 28, 2006


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Monday, October 16, 2006

After touching the extreme south of Africa, our travels have come to an end in the paradise of Mozambique. Beach, sun, sand, and best of all, awesome diving have been filling our last week of our adventure. Off these shores, we have seen such rich wildlife - especially compared to Lake Malawi, site of our last underwater safari. Here, the fish are huge, the biggest being the 12m long WHALE-SHARK. These elusive beasts that we spent hours trying to hunt down without success in Thailand, live here in the 100s. You are basically guaranteed to dive with a few, at least!, during your stay here.

On our first day, coming back from our second dive, we spotted a big whale shark and hopped in to snorkel with him when all of a sudden a second even bigger one showed up just behind us, nearly bumping into us with his enormous open mouth! No worries though, for those of you who are not familiar with them, they are completely harmless, their huge mouth has no teeth whatsoever, they just cruise around looking super cool 01 Aeroporto de Maputo
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The other amazing ocean treasure to be found here are the manta rays. These guys just fly underneath the water - gently flapping their 6m - long wings just over our heads.

We have one final stop before we head home - we are going to see some good friends in Gaborone. As we finish our travels, we are getting excited to come back home and see all of you, our friends and family...and eat some of Magdeleine's wonderful cuisine. Thanks for all of your messages during our adventures.

See you all soon!!
(And for those of you in the US, Ty is definately coming out before starting a job, so see you guys soon too!!)
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bkoffman
bkoffman on Oct 27, 2006 at 06:32PM

Thanks
Thanks for sharing your trip.
As a fellow voyageur ,but also as a papa, I am glad you two are home safe and full of memories.
Hope to see you stateside
Be well
Brian

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