We are in our last week of the Mozambican adventure! We decided that it is time to seek new adventures, and so we are off. We leave Friday and will take the Ilala to Nkhata bay, then on to Mzuzu and from there to Karonga and then Mbeya in Tanzania. There we will take the Tazara train to Dar es Salaam. The trip will take about 6 days and then we will have a week on Zanzibar before flying to the UK via Nairobi. We’ll keep you updated
The rains have become much less, and is seems as if the rainy season is almost over. The beach is reforming quickly and we can walk across it now from our hut to the lodge that way again so it is very pleasant. Its amazing that all the sand that washed away is being deposited again producing a soft sandy white beach again with no traces of where the flash floods were.
The wet season hasn’t been nearly as bad as we imagined, not as humid and much less nasty biting things although we are somewhat tired of the bites we do get daily.
We have been reminded again about the fragility of life in Africa, Ines, one of the young members of staff here was having a baby but lost it due to a difficult birth, and the next day the sister in law of ou friend Elias lost her baby during birth as well.
We tend to take the place for granted now but yesterday evening the sunset was very beautiful, the sun painting the clouds red and orange with a backdrop of bright blue. We have been very lucky to be here and privileged to meet the local people and know them for a while. The different characters, the jokers, the introverts, the workers and the shirkers. I am still amazed they walk to work every day, maybe 2 hours, then after a 10 hour day they walk back again with a smile on their faces. Elias came here this week, soaking wet, he had waded through the Michalanga river to get to work. He didn’t have any dry clothes so he dried as he worked.
Just now Joyce from the farm came with her daughter, Emma, one of the heavy clay stoves had fallen on her forehead and there was a deep long cut. We cleaned it a bit and sent her to hospital on one of the lodge boats. Another reminder of the difficulties people here live with daily.
