Inhaca and Ponto do Oura

We've had a chance to get out of the city on a couple of weekends. We went with a couple to an island called Inhaca. It's across the bay from Maputo. We went there by boat and stayed overnight at a small camp. It was nice to be the only ones at the camp. The water in the bay was very warm. We spent a lot of time just floating around and enjoying each others company.

We also went to Ponta do Oura, this is truly a hidden jewel. It is in the most southern part of Mozambique, just a few miles from the South African boarder. Jon and I had been taking a scuba diving classes and this was the weekend for our open water dive. A friend loaned us his Land Cruiser to drive there because you have to have a good 4x4 (and liscense plates). The roads are very rough outside of the city and mostly barren of people. We made five dives, three on Saturday and two on Sunday, the reefs we dove on where beautiful. They had lots of life: we saw two sea turtles, a large sting ray, many lionfish, a large star fish, several giant potato bass, and even nemo and his family. Very cool.