Tracking Great Whites

Great White Shark Tracking Project

For a fantastically eery experience, log onto Ocean Global Shark Tracker and see what a few Great Whites are doing right now. As of yesterday, Maddox, a 2000lb monster, was casually heading into the Maputo Bay area. Brenda Fassie and Louise were cruising the coast just south of Inhambane, a bunch of whites are swimming … Read more

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Baby Great White being finned at Guinjata

Great White Shark being finned in Mozambique

Well I am not sure what this all means to each different ocean using community out there…but it sure stokes emotions either way. This little baby white could be your worse nightmare, the encounter of your life, food or profit…as a surfer, a diver, a subsistence fisherman or a poacher… Guinjata Bay. Southern Mozambique. A few … Read more

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Floods wreaking havoc in Xai Xai area

Lindela road closure 22 January 2013

The driver of Fatima’s bus confirmed first hand that the main EN1 road is closed. Exactly where, we are not sure, and the useability of the bypass road is also an unknown. What is known is all over the internet. 70 000 people displaced. Quite a few dead by now, the number growing. The road … Read more

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Dorado bite

Up in Southern Mozambique, and right down the coast into Southern Natal, the seasonal “Dorado” are coming out regularly. Local boats in Tofo are getting 4’s and 5’s interspersed with the usual small couta and the odd sailfish. Yesterday Jose Rungu hooked a big marlin that towed him and his rowboat around the bay for … Read more

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