well, counting down the days until I leave here - via Capetown - via Hong Kong - back to Sydney. I feel pretty sad to leave. =( But I'll get to see all of you again! =)
For my last weekend in Mozambique, me and the boys (you know who you are) decided to go to Inhaca Island.
The quickest way to geto Inhaca Island is via a 10 minute flight courtesy of an old Russian jet propelled plane. It's a bit dodgy, noisy ... but you get some great views of Maputo city ...
Inhaca is SMALL. It has about a population of 5,000 - almost all Mozambicans (our friend Andrew on the island is one of a few ex-pats). In fact, this is the main street that greeted us ...
Consequently, there's not much to do on Inhaca except sit on the beach ...
... which we kept doing until evening fell. It was so gorgeously peaceful there (Apart from the blaring African Hip hop music in the background).
It was soon pretty cold. We managed to befriend a bunch of South Africans who had rented a holiday house there and set up a fire ...
... In somewhat ironic fashion, they were all Nando's chicken shop franchise owners. There were many interesting discussions about chickens me and my team were able to have! Using our convincing analysis, we won all the arguments about chicken imports (or maybe it was because they were very drunk?!)
The next day we kayaked (into the wind = ouch) to a small island nearby, Portuguese Island. There is NOTHING here (not even drinkable water). Except we came across a bunch of fisherman who had just caught fish - so we bought two off them and proceeding to cook them (one of the benefits that having friends that smoke is always having matches). Here's my mate julio with our fish - $1 each! (beautiful sand too, huh!)
All that was left was a quiet ride hime ... I thought I'd take the boat this time. Just as well, because there were some GREAT sunset shots of the city ...
Blessings
john
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