Spring Break

Spring Break in Mozambique. A first! We were invited by some friends to go camping/diving in a small town about 7 hours north of Maputo. There were five families altogether: 11 kids and 10 adults. Our destination was a camp on the beach at Praia Da Barra. Most of the road was good and the drive up was beautiful. Check out Google Earth and look at Mozambique. You will see many of these inland lakes that are along the coast line. They are cut off from the Indian Ocean by large sand dunes that are covered by vegetation. I have heard people call Mozambique the "Lagoon Coast" and to see it with our own eyes was amazing. To look out over a big blue lagoon and then just over the dune is the Indian Ocean, it was incredible. Jon and I went diving while we were on the trip; at a dive center in Tofo (about 15 minutes from our camp). The reef they took us to was not very big, but was full of life. One reallly interesting part of going to these places is the people you meet. As we were talking to our dive master we found that he had recently finished a road trip from England to South Africa. I know a guy who drove from Snellville to Minnesota to harvest cranberry's, which is pretty awesome too! : ). The funny thing about this guy is he is leaving his job at the dive center in Mozambique to go to Tucson, Arizona to be with his American girlfriend. Sam and Spencer love being at the beach we all had so much fun playing in the warm water and hanging out on the beach.