News on John

I have not had a lot of communication with John, but that that I have had has been good.

 

He met up with some awsome sounding people on his very first night out.  He met with a family who lives here at Sheffield Beach. Far from being alone, they invited him to stay in their holiday home very close to where he was headed for night 2 - which he did for 2 nights.  He is pulling Richard's boat, but the boat trailer was not really built for rougher roads and gave quite a lot of trouble.  Locals rallied round and have fixed it so that it should not break again.

 

From there, he carried on "alone", but met really friendly people at every stop, and so became quite a socialiser.  He had an awsome sounding dive with Mantas.  I am sure we will get more detail when he comes back.

 

He met up with Richard and his son, Warrick (and his son's girlfriend) on Saturday 10th May.  From there they have driven up to the Rovuma river - the border between Mozambique and Tanzania.  I gathered that the roads in the north are REALLY bad.  There has been a lot of rain, and they are almost impassable.  Anyway, they got there on Friday 16 May and have been waiting for the conditions to be right for King to cross.

 

I gather he met with Kingsley Holgate yesterday, and that King's plans are to stay in the north for about 10-14 days.  Again I am sure that I will get more information once they are in an area where there is OK cellphone signal.

 

He is sounding very happy indeed.

 

I will send another posting when I have more info to share.  Till then, keep well