Managed to sleep until 9 today, I'm slowly getting better at this lazy business. We had nothing planned for today, just swimming and I had planned to go for a run or do some fitness of any kind. I think I have lost a stone already! Muscle dies quickly in Africa! I headed out quietly as I could and all morning drank water and read my book whilst in a very comfortable hammock. I decided to swim to a floating platform which looked deceptively close, in fact it mu...

Very tired the next morning. Ate breakfast and after fully waterproofing our gear we headed again for the pickup to Silima. We arrived right next to bus station. Next stop monkey bay! We have either been fortunate or unfortunate with the busses so far. We never miss them but are always the last on meaning we stand! Bus journey was a long 4 hours through heavy rain, made the same mistake of offering an available seat to a local guy who took without thanks and let...

Had nice long lie in and had the added bonus of finding out that breakfast was included in the price of accommodation!! Bonus! The owner told us about a croc farm a few km away, so we geared up and headed out along the beach, as our accommodation is right on the beach, as is most on Senga bay. As we set off a huge storm grew behind us but wind was thankfully sending it the other direction. Suddenly the wind stopped dead and changed, blowing the storm our way, w...

Early start for me as wanted to say bye to Will. Before he left he gave us a load if goodies and agreed to send some paintings back to toms house. So mum, your Xmas presents are on there way!! Sad to say bye to Will, got on well with him. Had time to quickly make use of the internet and write email home to a few people. Caught the AXA bus to silima, very same bus we caught a week or so earlier. Then jumped in the back of a pickup which soon filled more than y...

Today was Shawn's last day. We headed into the city centre and brought a few essentials from the big super Market. We were all sad to see our swiss Jesus look alike go, he left at 12 to start his new project in Tanzania. That evening was a slow one. Wills last night so we had a few beers, more pool and talked to an Irish girl Fiona about climbing Mt Milangie and what we needed in order to climb it, equipment rental ect.. Very useful and gave me a number of the ...