Cecily arrived before Christmas. It was nice to share some of our experiences and favourite places with her. The weather was not great but we had some pretty standard, very hot days... There was lightning in the skies one night and plenty of rain on our trip to Maputo(torrential really because we were driving through what seemed like dams of water with the old red 4x4). Many other vehicles broke down because of the level of water.
As you can see, the boys were very pleased to see her.
Cecily and Ceri went to Mkhuze game reserve and spent time in a spa lodge near the town of Mkhuze.
We booked a couple of days at Rocktail beach camp. We spent a whole morning just lazing around the swimming pool, then lunch, then tea, then dinner, and then we joined the group from the beach camp for the fastest walk ever, looking for turtles...up and down the beach like a squadron!
Turtles come onto the beach to lay eggs at night and you may see 2 types: the loggerhead and leatherback. If you are lucky you can also see hatchlings (2 months after eggs are laid- we have seen a leatherback laying eggs, a few loggerhead turtles and loggerhead hatchlings -all in the same night! on a previous trip), but not if you are charging down the beach! Turtles are light and sound sensitive. Any noise will make them do a U -turn back into the sea. But, when they have started laying eggs, they will continue, even if disturbed, because they then just have to get on with it(quite human like).
We snorkelled over a lovely reef and again became fascinated by the underworld. We then plunged into the sea right above the ragged tooth sharks(you can see their shark bodies underneath you jerking and turning in a shark fashion...)
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