This last weekend we ventured up to the most beautiful beach! I am totally in love with Mozambican beaches! The whole country is filled with them! (at least the east side of it)
We started on our trek after church and a quick lunch. We took off down a road that technically is not even open yet as it is still under construction, but there are people driving on it already. Many people. Including us. It's interesting here, how they construct their roads... this is a major road, running up the coast line from Maputo and north, but they construct it in segments. We drove on a nice paved road (without police I might add! It's not technically an open road.) for a short segment, then on a dirt path, then through a small little village, then through loads of standing water, then back on the large open highway again. Very interesting. Also, as they road is not technically open (though there is traffic on it) no one really cares where you drive. Lanes were sometimes closed, and we were occasionally driving on the left hand side of the road, other times on the right. Some people would go to the right around a round-about, others to the left. Interesting...
The road would go from open, and wonderful (the best road I have been on in Moz)
To this:
We finally got to the ferry which takes us and our car over to the other peninsula with a certain, more beautiful beach. This sketchy ferry can take 6 cars at a time. There were at least 20 cars in front of us. Drew got out to scope out the situation. When he came back he had a small pamphlet promoting a service that would come and pick us up on the other side and take us to the beach. This sounded appealing as we would just park our car and walk right on to the ferry, but it's hard to know who you can trust. We called the guy and he sounded legit, so we left our car and went across on this rickety ferry (which had been broken down just the week before).
We were met by a nice South African named Fritz who took us down a winding path, and through deep sand to a small little gem. Here there was a small compound which had a restaurant, bar, observation deck, and a pool, as well as housing. There were only a few of us there and we felt very safe. We then went through the coolest mangrove tunnel as a walkway to the beach with small little stairs and a great atmosphere. It was like a movie! Then we burst out to the most beautiful beach! It was almost deserted as well! White sands and blue water with waves crashing onto the shore. The hot day then turn
I love the ocean. I could truly just watch it for hours. It was pristine. Nothing like the beach in Maputo, strewn with glass and trash and packed with people, most of them drinking "2M" the famous Mozambican beer. Its party central there, and not my cup of tea. This beach was the complete opposite. Everyone we came across was polite and very friendly, as well as the pristine beach without a piece of trash anywhere! We watched the crabs run back and forth in the surf, and played in the ocean. It has a little steeper grade on the shore, which makes for a bit more powerful waves. They wear you out quick! It was very enjoyable.
This next photo is driving into Maputo from the north side. You can see how many cranes are just in this one photo! There is a lot of construction here, for sure! Drew and I counted 6 that we could see just at one time. We guess there is about 15 to 20 cranes in use currently in the city of Maputo
To this:
We finally got to the ferry which takes us and our car over to the other peninsula with a certain, more beautiful beach. This sketchy ferry can take 6 cars at a time. There were at least 20 cars in front of us. Drew got out to scope out the situation. When he came back he had a small pamphlet promoting a service that would come and pick us up on the other side and take us to the beach. This sounded appealing as we would just park our car and walk right on to the ferry, but it's hard to know who you can trust. We called the guy and he sounded legit, so we left our car and went across on this rickety ferry (which had been broken down just the week before).
We were met by a nice South African named Fritz who took us down a winding path, and through deep sand to a small little gem. Here there was a small compound which had a restaurant, bar, observation deck, and a pool, as well as housing. There were only a few of us there and we felt very safe. We then went through the coolest mangrove tunnel as a walkway to the beach with small little stairs and a great atmosphere. It was like a movie! Then we burst out to the most beautiful beach! It was almost deserted as well! White sands and blue water with waves crashing onto the shore. The hot day then turn
I love the ocean. I could truly just watch it for hours. It was pristine. Nothing like the beach in Maputo, strewn with glass and trash and packed with people, most of them drinking "2M" the famous Mozambican beer. Its party central there, and not my cup of tea. This beach was the complete opposite. Everyone we came across was polite and very friendly, as well as the pristine beach without a piece of trash anywhere! We watched the crabs run back and forth in the surf, and played in the ocean. It has a little steeper grade on the shore, which makes for a bit more powerful waves. They wear you out quick! It was very enjoyable.
This next photo is driving into Maputo from the north side. You can see how many cranes are just in this one photo! There is a lot of construction here, for sure! Drew and I counted 6 that we could see just at one time. We guess there is about 15 to 20 cranes in use currently in the city of Maputo
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