Mozembique

So once jo and Miri recovered we set about getting visas for mozembique which turned out to be a gargantuan task first we had to go to the embassy, get the forms and wait, then go to the bank to pay for the visas only to find we didn't have enough and the cash machine wouldn't take mastercard, and as my passport was still at the embassy i had to go back there and wait to get my passport back, go back to the bank and wait go back to the embasy and wait. 5 hours latter and we had managed to give our passports to the embassy and where told to come back in two hours, which i did only to wait for another two hours when they realised they did'nt have my passport queue another half hour wait and finally we all ready to rock'n'roll.

The Next Day we hit the road to Mapoto and got there in good time before the day after heading to Tofo. a beutiful little beach with some of the best dive sites in the world just minutes off the coast line. after the obligitory playing on the beach and in the waves i enquired about diving and decided that i would do my initial open water diver course, miri and jo where easily convinced and so we had a really cool 4 days diving on the shallow reefs. Evidently there was a deep reef with manta ray on it but we would have to do the first of the advanced dives in order to do this one more dive turned in to two and then in to the entire advanced open water and so we pretty much dived for 10 days solid. had a great time though and during this time i officially became unemployed but hey i wasn't too bothered.

Mantas are incredable as are whale sharks especially when your snorkeling and look down to see this 4 ft wide mouth coming up at you.