Wednesday, September 26
1400 Arrive Santa Carolina,
Bazaruto, Mozambique.
Wind: 8 Kts E
Lat: 20 36.93 S
Lon: 035 19.92 E
Log: - Nm
Engine: 1089.0 Hrs
Barometer 1020 Mb steady.
Distance covered since noon
25/09/12 about 113 miles.
Approximately 800 miles
travelled in 7.5 days since leaving Baly Bay, Madagascar.
40 litres of diesel used.
Went ashore at Santa
Carolina. The Bazaruto Archipelago is a nation park. I paid my dues to the
rangers: US$10 per person and US$5 for the boat. The rangers were polite,
friendly and spoke some English. The predominant language in Mozambique is
Portuguese.
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| Paradise Island - North West beach end of airstrip |
It was interesting seeing a
place that I had visited on holiday with my family as a child - some 50 years
ago - very scary thought. The hotel opened in 1952 it s now a wreck not having
survived cyclones and Africa. It would have been a very grand hotel in its day.
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| The former owners of the Santa Carolina Hotel |
Thursday September 27 at 1000
Sadiqi Sadiqi departed Santa Carolina. Waved good bye to the friendly park
rangers who had helped me carry water to the dingy.
Engine 1089.0
Winds 10 -12 NE
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| The Church |
While rounding the northern
tip of Santa Carolina I saw a line of white and pink dots just above the water.
WTFWT! I wiped the salt off the sun glasses. It was way before Beer o clock
being around 1000 to imply any hallucination. It was a flock of a hundred or so
pink flamingos flying northwards. It was an extraordinary sight with the vivid
pink and white birds flying in formation just above the surface of the water.
