Papaws, Prawns, Palms, Pansy Shells, Peachy days, Perfect waves..

Gently does it!
Leaving Beira, ‘popped in’ at Zim border 300km away to get TIP ( temp import permit) extended. Taking it slow now with caravan, don’t need more complications.
Long drive south next day to coast, great road until the last 100km or so of really vrot potholed and broken tar. Stayed over at Inhasorro, with a nearby night club pounding all night. At 1am moved caravan into lee of nearby building to reduce volume level and try & get some sleep.

Then about 50km or so of sand road to Pomene Lodge – which is Stunning wif a kaptil S.

Pomene is situated on a sand spit, with a conservation area estuary on the inside, where we snorkeled around sunken trees, seeing the biggest tropical angelfish I’ve ever seen, zebras, moorish idols, pencilfish, squid, pansy shells, and all n all.

Had some good surf days ‘somewhere in the area’ too. Say No More, nudge-nudge, wink-wink, know what I mean?

Further south at Morrungulo, a lovely campsite with ripoff pricing, really enjoyed the beach, papaws, and prawns on the barbie.

Leaving Morrungulo on another sand road, some serious knocking started from the caravan on every bump - found the shock absorber in the towhitch A-frame broken. I remembered an entry on the 4x4 forum which mentioned the “Very Basic Mechanic “at nearby Masinga. Sure enough, the Tracks4Africa map on the GPS had the “Very Basic Mechanic “ listed and shortly we had the shock welded up sharp sharp!

Then on to Tofu beach area, where the little camping there is, is really dreadful, oh so awfully unbearable. So, as we’ve done twice before, scouted the area and cut a deal with Nordin’s Lodge on the beach. A sweet little casita, with a basic en-suite and our Jurgens Xcape is looking lonely, parked outside, sleeping on it’s ownsome for 4 nights.

Tofu beach! – a really great beach – complete with vendors trying to sell you handbags, bracelets, shells, prawns, squid, paintings etc, etc – too many times every day.

A good escape is the next bay, Tofinho, which is probably Mozambique’s best-known surf break. Cooking this morning, and after my second surf today, arms & shoulders too sore to paddle out again, typing is a lot less strenuous.

So here I sit, outside my casita, overlooking sunny beautiful Tofu beach, Sharon next to me reading ‘Emma’s War’ – about Sudan..and life doesn’t get much peachier!

Tomorrow, off to fairly nearby Ponta Zavora for a few days, then to the Republic of South Africa – heard it’s a beautiful country too.
We were going to go in via northern Kruger Park, but latest info I can find says the part of the road is quite corrugated and stony – which we’ve had enough of until I get the ‘van permanently repaired with a new axle- so we’ll take the boring tar road via Maputo to Komatipoort. Prob a short detour via southern Kruger’s tar roads to Joburg to visit Don and Joy.

Thereafter, God-willing…
.. not gonna tell you - you can read it on the next blog.

That’s enough about us and our indolent, hedonistic lifestyle. How about you? How are you, and what are you doing?