Saturday, October 4, 2008

John W - Dhow Project




Bill & I have just returned from Nacala in Northern Mozambique, where we successfully dimantled Kingsley Holgate's dhow Spirit of Adventure. The job took a fortnight, with a week's travel either side.


Yesterday, the dhow pieces were containerised for transport to Centurion, where the dhow will be rebuilt, and will be the centrepiece for a new adventure centre shopping complex.


Plenty of hard work and new experiences for us on the 8500km odyssey.


Like crossing the Zambezi on a ferry, and getting lost in Nampula, Moz's third largest city.


There are a lot of Africans in Africa!












Here's where we had our sundowners every evening.
Kingsley joined us for a week, and regaled us with fantastic stories about his recent adventure Africa - Outside Edge. He travelled around the coastline of Africa, within 50km of the coast, in 448 days. We also met a seaweed farmer and left-handed Phillipino guitarist ...
What an Adventure!



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