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Meet the team at thesardine.co.za…

Meet the team at thesardine.co.za…

The team that powers thesardine.co.za...
The team that powers thesardine.co.za…

The Wild Bunch comes to mind…but these guys run a tight ship – you can trust them with your online marketing goals…

Check out thesardine.co.za’s entry level campaign offering right here. Starting at R500 for a foot in the door and the peace of mind knowing that your products or company messages – are OUT THERE!

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Whitesands Holiday Specials in Barra

Whitesands Holiday Specials in Barra

WHITESANDS

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

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Vasco da Gama opening soon in Tofo…

Vasco da Gama opening soon in Tofo…

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.

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Vasco da Gama opening…Friday the 13th February!

 

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Sardine correspondent Renske Massing tries out the genuine Herbie parked in the Vasco da Gama restaurant and pool area.

 

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A brace of Wahoo: by Darrell Hattingh

A brace of Wahoo: by Darrell Hattingh

Oceanic Marine artist Darrell Hattingh has been producing amazing fish art and sculptures for over 30 years.  Darrell excels in underwater scenes drawn or sculpted as he has seen them in his thousands of hours spent underwater – spearfishing. This experience enables Darrell to perfectly emulate the subjects in their natural behaviour of hunting and preying.

Here Darrell has produced a brace of serious looking wahoo as they hunt for prey somewhere off our coastline.

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A brace of Wahoo: by Darrell Hattingh

Darrell can be contacted through his classifieds listing on thesardine.co.za…Click here to go there.

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River Cruising on the weekend…

River cruising on the weekend…

The Umzimkulu was out yesterday with some of the original river pirates enjoying some river cruising – John Collinson and Lawrence Wurznip…brought a fishing rod along to test out some new lures…and a cooler box for the fish…?

Port
John Collinson, Johan Papenfuss, John Fever and Lawrence Wurznip.
Starboard
Sadie Papenfuss, Alison Winroe, Megan and Dave Candy…

Although we did try really hard in the crystal clear incoming tide, throwing dropshots and flash lures – we never got a hit. John says it’s far too clean in the river for fishing and Lawrence agreed, both speculating also that the mouth will most likely close in the next week or two. It’s bad news for the skiboaters, but for the estuarine anglers, its fantastic news. The fish generally get more and more active, the longer the mouth is close. And the garrick run usually starts at about the same time the mouth starts closing. We will start targeting garrick shortly…book your spot here.

There is a rumour circulating Port Shepstone, of a 30 kg kob taken off the wall just on the inside of the river mouth…last week?! Our investigative instincts have kicked in and we will surely have some more about this phantom fish shortly. We have a name.

In the meantime, it’s the weekend so you can catch us down on the river, at Spiller’s Wharf…river cruising from lunch time ’til dark…

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