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Casa na Duna in Praia do Tofinho has been open for accommodation since last year, and has been hosting travellers in style.
The view is straight up the barrel of the famed Tofinho Point – surf accommodation at it’s very best. Ranking right up there with J-Bay Surf View!
The warm water, great fishing, surfing and diving is what Mozambican holidays to Inhambane area are all about. Days go on forever and a siesta on the hammock overlooking The Dragon (the other really good but temperamental surf spot that breaks over shallow reef – high tide only), is part of the plan.
Evenings in and around Tofo mean sidewalk restaurants and bars, music kaleidoscopes, beach parties and howling at the full moon parties.
Andante Lodge’s new Web 3.0 website is launched and working great
The Sardine News and Online Marketing Team are super stoked to announce that Andante Lodge’s new Web 3.0 website is launched and working just great.
Guests were using the site to research and book in this very first week of operation. Each guest was interviewed as to where they heard about the all new and glamorous Andante Lodge in Waterkloof Holdings area, Pretoria East – and they had all found the newly opened lodge on the web.
Lodge owner Elmo Botha, under the strict direction of his lovely wife and co-host, Ingrid, got off some high quality photographs, which really, make the site what it is. The right lens, the right light, composition, post-processing…and all the efforts paid off with a very handsome website.
Andante Lodge in Pretoria featuring some very effective photography by Elmo Botha.
The website has all the bells and whistles, and has been deployed with full SEO and Content Marketing, by thesardine.co.za team. You can check the weather, check for availability, join the news channel, research Pretoria and surrounds…basically get a feel for Pretoria and familiarize yourself with the attractive and peaceful area. And the website assists interact directly with Elmo and Ingrid, as you make your arrangements.
The lodge itself is set as a 4 star establishment and features the best of the best as far as appointments and luxury are concerned. Off street secure parking and security give you a perfectly relaxed nights sleep. And you can have your room serviced, or not.
As you wish!
Pop on over to Andante Lodge’s new website…andantelodge.co.za – leave a comment if you like it!
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Instant Share Branded e-Postcards for thesardine.co.za.
thesardine.co.za is offering a comprehensive social networking campaign built utilising this radical new technology. Known as the Instant Share e-Postcard Campaign, the product can be adapted to many social marketing requirements.
Totally unlike spam, e-postcards are created and shared by punters voluntarily, and then again voluntarily distributed through social to specifically defined and therefore targeted social groups. This means a surfing photograph is extremely likely going to end up on a surfers phone…targeting made possible through the relevance of the content distributed.
Shares are easy as clicking share, and the image is downloadable to a punters device for further distribution by wifi, bluetooth or any other PAN (personal area network). Thereby perpetuating the reach of every photo, which is branded, and leads back to the marketers website(s).
The Sardine can hook you up with a FREE one week trial (includes 50 e-Postcards)…just email some cool artwork to umzimkulu@gmail.com and we will set you a-sailing…
Catching kob in Port St. Johns with #1 Mydo Luck Shot
Catching kob in Port St. Johns with the MYDO baitswimmer head # 1 used as a powerful dropshot rig. These two are rigged the two different ways (see below), and with paddletails. Note the outsized hook on the orange plastic, for big fish and heavy tackle. The Orca plastic is rigged with the knot buried deep and a short shank hook further back in the lure. Choose your favourite hook!
The original #1 Mydo is turning out to be the choice lure in Port St. Johns as it’s perfect weight – 1.7Oz, and swimming action, works the waters at the mouth and in the surf zone, just right. Read on to find out more about catching kob in Port St. Johns.
The rig is adjustable and allows you to engineer the ideal swimming pattern for you, in the given conditions. The line is tied right through the middle of the baitswimmer head and through the eye of the hook. Using a uni-knot allows for the tiny adjustment needed, to play with the action. There is also a through the bait option – great for sticking a hook far back in the bait. Some plastic baits, like the ones with paddletails, need no adjustment really, they swim just so nice, straight and reliable.
But if you loosen the connection between hook and baitswimmer, and stick a split tail plastic on, you can get that thing to swim like a snake! It really is amazing to see you plastic dead bait darting through the water just like a wounded and fleeing fish would be.
The # 1’s are the budget line of the Mydo, and you get to buy them unrigged so you can choose and rig the ideal hook and leader combination for you. The #1’s come with a pin or without, the following are the adaptations of the MYDO baitswimming technologies, to various fishing applications.
baitswimmer dropshot head with pin: rig your nice soft strong leader through either of the available holes and right through the baitswimmer. Tie on your absolutely favourite hook, even a short shank will work great. Grab ahold of your plastic (anything from 3 inch to 8 inch – the hook just needs to be right for the plastic and prey), and get that hook in there. Bury the hook so far in that the eye of the hook goes right inside of the plastic. Now stick the plastic onto the pin, upright. With longer hooks, get the pin right through the eye of the hook, bend the pin over, trim it off with heavy duty pliers and off you go to the nearest river mouth. Now! The pin keeps the plastic in the right place – on the hook!
For short shank hooks, or when you want to rig a hook right in tail, keep burying the hook to where you want it. Put the nose of the plastic onto the pin, and stick a toothpick through the plastic through the eye of the hook, break off protruding ends. Now you have two anchors for the plastic, a completely flexible bait with the leader running right inside it, and a hook right back in the bite zone – far more hookups, no more tail-bite-offs.
baitswimmer dropshot head without pin: This is the other options (some shops sell #1’s without pins especially for this rig). Leader through bottom hole, up through eye of hook, back through top hole, and tie a uni-knot. Everyone should know this knot by now. Quick and painless, and very reliable. Use you own initiative for keeping the plastic on, when it eventually starts to fall off. I use cable ties. Toothpicks. Superglue. A slow bouncy retrieval for the kob, gives a totally different swimming pattern than a faster surface crank for the garrick. The Port St. Johns crew get their fish at a more medium pace, and when they change pace and bounce completely – that’s when they get the bang most times.
baitswimmer: the #1 was one of Brian Davey’s first patents, and all the other baitswimmers were based on this lure. Even at it’s size, it can give swimming lessons to the biggest shad, and even tames a bonito of a kilo or so. Amazing, considering how hard it was to swim those baits ,before Brian came along with his invention and rocked the fishing world. Walla walla, half beak and jap mack all started swimming upright and true – no more spinning baits. The Vaalies finally started winning some comps!
live baitswimmer: #1 baitswimmers are ideal for putting som order into your spread when dragging a bunch of errant little live baits behind you. The bit of weight just puts them away from the surface guys, and you can then play deeper with the #4 and #4 Mydo Baitswimmers safely under them. Running 6 or 8 livies takes some serious planning and execution, and the baitswimmers help you do just that
But here in Port St. Johns, shoulder to shoulder with the pro’s, I am stoked to report that everyone here is using #1’s with great results. Many kob so far, and many garrick. Getting photos out of the team is nigh impossible – they don’t want anyone to know where and what they are catching!
Click here for more about the MYDO Luck Shot #1’s and here to take advantage of our price promotion on MYDO Baitswimmer # 1’s.
Dealer enquiries to umzimkulu@gmail.com, there is a reward of a huge MYDO hamper offered out to for people who can hook us up with dealers, in their areas.
If you are smart enough to run a smart phone, then you just can’t be dumb enough to get bored…ever again.
Take this ship for example…
Just buzz on over to marinetraffic.com, zone in on your carpark, and see the names and even missions, of all those hunks of metal cruising the horizons. Even yachts!
You may get bored after a while and have to switch on over to some other entertainment stream, but you will definitely find your self loading up all this cool ship data again and again – especially in that carpark with an afternoon onshore and a quart in your hand.
Even some some ski-boats are equipped with AIS transponders, but for the most part, its mainly large vessels travelling trade routes that use the system to obviously avoid collisions. There is the pirate drawback, but you can turn the transponder off of you like, but for the most part it AIS has become a valuable all-round source of cool data.
Wikipedia is gonna be much better at explaining it than me, this morning…
“The Automatic Identification System (AIS) is an automatic tracking system used on ships and by vessel traffic services (VTS) for identifying and locating vessels by electronically exchanging data with other nearby ships…”
Marine Traffic (http://marinetraffic.com) even have a really cool App that you can get for free from the Play Store or equivalent, on your phone. Or just access through a browser – any browser will do!
Big news today is the launch of Offshore Africa Port St. Johns’ Web 3.0 website. Rob Nettleton and co’s IN YOUR FACE photography will get you checking that your wetsuit is hanging nicely, and ready for next year.
