The Wild Bunch comes to mind…but these guys run a tight ship – you can trust them with your online marketing goals…
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If you have never been to Whitesands at the very end of the fantasmical Barra Peninsula in Southern Mozambique, this is your chance!
With the ocean on one side, and the huge Inhambane Bay on the other, there is something here for everyone. The newly famous African Kirra surf spot has been just up the beach for all this time – it’s a quick run to the paddle out and you can surf yourself all the way home!
Fishing in the same spot at night time for stumpnose and kingfish will surprise you…and gamefish come right into the huge lagoon. King mackeral are caught all the time, year round, in certain places right inside and completely sheltered from the sea.
Panzy shells and seahorses fight for attention with dugongs and dolphins in the estuary. You can go out and buy fresh seafood like sardines and calamari right off the netters dhows at Panzy Island and surrounding islands.
Deep sea fishing is excellent, check out the following for more details and keep checking thesardine.co.za for news on the current striped marlin and sailfish run. It’s been fantastic with some local boats getting multiple strikes every day.
Bathing in the idyllic and completely calm waters in front of the resort is completely safe and loads of fun.
For more information and contact details for Whitesands, click here.
HOLIDAY SPECIALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2015
R3000 for 2 people sharing Log Cabin for 7 nights including one meal per day.
DATES: 2015
1 March – 25 March
15 April – 25 Junie
21 July – 30 September
With a beautiful swimming pool and a genuine Herbie parked in the restaurant, Vasco da Gama in Tofo, Inhambane is firing up their restaurant again.
Famous for it’s genuine Portuguese cuisine and ice cold draft beer – Vasco’s now has resident chef Henrique who has been creating culinary masterpieces for decades. Henrique has cooked all over the world and blends different methods and ingredients to create his unique and international flavour.
We were served grilled pork fillet basted in a mango sauce and almost ate our fingers right off!
Check back soon for more information…Vasco da Gama opens on Valentine’s weekend.
The Story
We were releasing a sailfish off the Umzimkulu one afternoon. The North Easter had been blowing for days and was finally stopped by a buster South Westerley – ideal conditions for a billfish on the dirty water line, especially in February.
Stepped over and into the engine well which is always full of water. Had a deep cut between two of my toes from an earlier incident that day – and a devillish bluebottle floated in and got its tentacles right into that cut. Right in. The initial searing sensation – which we alI have experienced hundreds of times, was nothing like anything I felt in the past. The poison had a marked advantage as the blue bottle injected its lethal payload of poision right into my raw flesh.
My lymph glands in my thigh started to swell with excruciating pain, and stupidly with my fingers I put pressure on the golf ball size gland – it seemed to burst and the poison entered the rest of me – searing pangs of pain right through my consciousness. Which I nearly lost a number of times.
6 Hours later and the pain finally subsided. There was just nothing to be done . Just crawled into the cabin and lay in asemi- paralysed state – unable to move or anything, until we got back in. Normally the pain only lasts 20 minutes, before it becomes barely an itch. Not this time!
Beware the (blue) bottle! They love this time of the year.
Bluebottles vs Portuguese man-o-war
The Portuguese man-o-war is a monster – with up to 30 cm long float sometimes, with numerous long stinging tentacles and one fully loaded main stinger. Lucky for us, we don’t get them in our waters. These guys really leave you with problems. The stings open into wounds like welts and all sorts of complications can, and do arise.
Our Bluebottle is much smaller and more friendly, normally an inch or two, but up to 15 cms sometimes. Their single stinging tentacle is proportionately longer – the bigger the bluebottle. And fortunately, the sting is a lot less severe.
They both shoot tiny hooks into your skin which unfold and squirt the poison into you, with no chance of stopping it, once it has found its mark.
Charismatic and informed – Anthony Bourdain of the Travel Channel is thoroughly entertaining and it’s going to be an interesting show tonight, as he scours our Mozambique – for cullinary and cultural treasures.
Check out NO RESERVATIONS with Anthony Bourdain!
