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Self catering accommodation options in Tofo

Surfing Tofo shorebreak: Team Mom and Dad Plomaritis leave a few for the kids

Self catering accommodation in Tofo

There are some great self catering accommodation in Tofo and Tofinho these days.

Since the quiet little beach village became the most fun town this side of the equator, a boom in available self catering accommodation in Tofo and Tofinho area has left us with options aplenty.

Here a few choice spots right close to all the many surf spots, dive operators and fishing charters…

Casa Algodoal – perched right over the main beach at Tofo

Casa Frenzy – a few kilometres along the beach to total privacy in the bush

Lalaland – also tucked away behind a sand dune, very exclusive

Casa na Duna – looking straight up the barrel of the mighty Tofinho surf break.

Each place is unique in it’s own right, so click on over to their respective pages by following the links above, and book away!

Self catering means you can hook into the local mercado downtown beach way, buy a wide variety of locally produced fruit and vegetables at super prices, and flavour that with any choice of a variety ranging from fresh prawns and crayfish, daily caught linefish to other treats like my favourite – clams!

Further back on into town, at the famous landmark junction called Babalaza, there is another market with decidedly more fishy flavour. All kinds of prawns, big and small, can be procured here. Take your own scale! Scallops can be found amongst fresh piles of sardines, anchovies and sometimes even mackerel. The variety of fish to use for bait includes halfbeaks and silkies, or wolf herring to the non-Durban. Funnily enough the locals call them walla walla?!

The supermarkets that have spring up like speedbumps all around the place literally have everything. Along with locally produced and supplied goods like farmed fish (saving the oceans), coconut oils and coffee.

What more could you need? Whatever it is, you’ll probably be sure find it in the market!

 

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Baby Black Marlin shoal off Bazaruto

Baby Black Marlin shoal off Bazaruto

An Instagram feed journal of the activities of The Sardine News activities…Baby Black Marlin shoal off Bazaruto

A few days ago, Capt. Duarte Rato reported on all the baby Black marlin been caught off the Bazaruto Archipelago, into this new year. These are amazingly beautiful fish – which put on a great show and fight on appropriate gear, be it conventional, spinning or on the fly.
 
Here´s a very short clip of one of these rat´s being released aboard VAMIZI, it just shows you on beautiful these little creatures are. Amazingly these small fish come right into the inshore reef´s and are caught in depths as shallow as 15 meters of green water.
As you can see in the rad little clip…

fishbazaruto.com‘s Captain Duarte Rato educates one of a proliferation of baby black marlin off Bazaruto this year – how to jump real good for the camera, just prior to release. More on thesardine co.za #thesardine #fishbazaruto

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Croc Rock just out from Casa Frenzy

The view from the conference and staging area at Casa Frenzy

Croc Rock just out from Casa Frenzy

Enjoy a great little video shot by Artsurfer.nl on a recent trip to Casa Frenzy. She was diving with Diversity Scuba in Tofo.

More about Casa Frenzy…

Casa Frenzy, a beautifully designed and built beach house, half way between Barra and Tofo – right on the beach – is now available for holiday rental.

The self catering elegently luxurious house is filled with fun features. Conversation corners, outdoor kitchen, barbecue area, coffee spots, reading hideaways – even a tiny studio well lit and breezy for painting. Yep, a painting corner!

The house has been carefully created to facilitate a honeymoon couple, or a group of 5 or 6. Bedrooms can become totally private or totally open – depending on your requirements.

Solar power handles lighting and cellphones – anything USB really. Hot water comes from the sun too. Cooking is by gas – so you really are off-the-grid. Except for the generator which powers the refrigeration requirements of the lodge.

There are actually 4 houses in total, to rent, all around Casa Frenzy. Prices are very reasonable, and any specific requirements can easily be discussed over email at umzimkulu@gmail.com. Click here for more Casa Frenzy pics and information.

To get out to Croc Rock reef as seen on TV above, many dive operators offer ocean safari and scuba trips…just book in and hop on!

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Biggest couta ever caught at Zavora

Zavora - the biggest couta ever caught

Biggest couta ever taken at Zavora

Zavora earlier last month…

Zavora - the biggest couta ever caught
Zavora – the biggest couta ever caught

A 57.7kg couta was weighed. And that’s all we know for now. More details to follow. We still checking the facts, but anyway…100 cm girth was also mentioned.

Len Mathews, who sent in the pic to thesardine.co.za, fishes the Zavora waters like a local. Evidence clear in these photos from his trip to Zavora the week before. Len is a MYDO Team member and he really catches fish.

Len Mathews about to release a striped marlin at Zavora, Southern Mozambique
Len Mathews about to release a striped marlin at Zavora, Southern Mozambique
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Half price on everything in Tofo

Everything in Tofo

Half price on everything in Tofo

Mercado do Tofo - half price everything in Tofo right now
Mercado do Tofo – half price everything in Tofo right now

Yip, it’s a half price on everything in Tofo this year…

Let me elaborate.

This exact time last year – R1 could get you 2.8 Meticals.

This time this year – R1 gets you 5.4 Meticals.

Click this link to see it as a graph…http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=ZAR&to=MZN&view=1Y

In fact it was 5.7 a few weeks before Praveen Ghordan was almost lynched by the mob.

And it ain’t gonna change anytime soon, except for the metical worsening as our two governments vie for the title of worst performing currencies on the entire modern world, against the ever climbing US dollar.

Firstly, Praveen is back in, so the Rand looks to stabilise.

Secondly, and most importantly, the subterfuge deals thrown together by the Russians and the French for Mozambique, er Frelimo, to squander (read steal) BILLIONS, will never really be undone. There will always be a dark shadow over the metical thrown by these giants who slay small vulnerable countries like Mozambique, for breakfast.

So a bleak outlook for a bunch of innocent people here in Mozambique. Whilst Gubueza, the architect of the mess he left conveniently in time for Nyuse to wallow in, heads up corporates now, without batting en eyelid in recognition of what he has done to the people of Mozambique.

Prices have started to rise – but how can the people afford them? Electricity was hiked 20% lately. But for now, prices are staying the same. A 2M still costs 60 Mets in the market, even 50 in some shops. That’s uh, R10!

The two countries, the two beautiful and once prosperous countries, have gone to the dogs. Well, the ruling parties, at least. Who have pissed on every lamp post.

But without wondering if it was our fault for giving it all away to the multitudes – led once by the leader of all time, our Mandela, but now by errant puppies – just go on holiday and milk the situation for while it lasts.

Or before the Metical is replaced by the Yen, and the Rand by the Dollar.

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