Mozambique Scuba Diving

So me and werner decided to try out Scuba diving and the plan was to do our open water qualification in Mozambique.

We started driving there the tuesday after work and arrived at the border post 3am, and had to wait a couple of hours for the border to open.

There were lots of boxes and rubbish in the bushes next to the road at the border, but i though it must be normal. When the sun came up, the boxes started moving, it was actual people sleeping in the boxes!! Amazingly they appeared and got ready for the day to begin. Only in Africa.

Now the instructions we got was, as soon as you cross the border it becomes a sand road, but what did we see? A perfectly tarred highway going to Maputo!! We were at the wrong border post, we should have went to kosi bay!

Out come by GPS and a map of mozambique, our mistake was huge, but we were up for the challenge to fix it. It meant we had to somehow find a sand road between the Maputo highway
and ponta du aura, and there were no real roads on the map! In the end after 6 hours of following the GPS bearing and trying to avoid land mines, driving through some hectic sand and almost getting stuck with my jeep we reached ponta du aura.

Scuba diving was an awesome experience, and to experience it in some of the best diving spots in the world a privilege! The vis was good and we saw very amazing fish, turtles and lion fish.

CapeStorm Rogaine - Kaapschehoop, Mpumalanga

Me can Con did it as a team, we overnighted in a train (barretts coaches) in kaapsche hoop. We experienced all weather conditions possible in one day: Mist, Sunshine, Rain, Hail, Thunder and Lightning and took shelter in the race office after taking a heavy beating in the hail while lightning stuck around us and the blaire witch chased us.

What is a Rogaine?

Rogaining is a sport where teams of 2 navigate their way around an area using a specially drawn map. Teams try to visit as many check points in the area within the set time limit, scoring more points at check points that are further away from the start / finish and at those that are harder to navigate to. Check points can be visited in any order. Teams may finish earlier if they so choose, but all teams MUST return to the start / finish before the cut-off time. Teams will loose points at a high rate for every minute they are late. Teams more than 30 minutes late will be disqualified. The overall winner in the race is the team with the highest nett number of points. For the MTB rogaine, check points will be located on and next to paths, tracks and roads. Mountain bike competitors must complete the entire course with their bikes.

CapeStorm Foot Rogaine - 3 November 2007

19	Team Information				Points	Penalty	Grand	Postion
20	Name #1	Name #2	Category	Event	Score		Total	Overall	Cat.
21	Nicholas Mulder	Ryno Griesel	Male Open	12 foot	2910	140	2770	1	1
22	Stephan Muller	Heidi Muller	Mixed	12 foot	2575	0	2515	2	1
23	Arrie De Swardt	Susan Sloan	Mixed	12 foot	2515	0	2515	3	2
24	Alex Pope	Nathan Thompson	Male Open	12 foot	2305	0	2305	4	2
25	Garry Morrison	Phillipe Van Der Leeuw	Male Open	12 foot	2055	0	2055	5	3
26	David Pilling	Dirk Els	Male Vet	12 foot	1990	0	1990	6	1
27	Alec Avierinos	Clinton Hardenberg	Male Open	12 foot	1950	0	1950	7	4
28	Tim Deane	Paul Burnett	Male Open	12 foot	1915	0	1915	8	5
29	Liz Mulder	David Hall	Mixed	12 foot	1865	0	1865	9	3
30	Stefan Horn	Johan Van Dijkhorst	Male Open	12 foot	1720	0	1720	10	6
31	Mark Anderson	Debbie Smith	Mixed	12 foot	1655	0	1655	11	4
32	Paul Plantinga	Derek Martin	Male Open	12 foot	1605	0	1605	12	7
33	Con Loubser	Jacques Booysen	Male Open	12 foot	1555	0	1555	13	8
34	William Cairns	Mike Underwood	Male Open	12 foot	1525	0	1525	14	2
35	Corne Van Biljon	Bennie Prinsloo	Male Open	12 foot	1555	30	1525	15	9
36	Francois vd Colff	Laura Foster	Mixed	12 foot	1465	0	1465	16	5
37	Reichardt Groenewald	Karen Pretorius	Mixed	12 foot	1125	0	1125	17	6
38	Lean Drinkwater	Karen Drinkwater / Royden Tapson	Mixed	12 foot	1020	0	1020	18	7
39	Kath Burnett	Cath Martin	Female Open	12 foot	610	0	610	19	1
40	Charles Lautenbach	Glynis Shoebotham / Catherine Horrocks	Mixed	12 foot	485	0	485	20	8
41	Burke Lautenbach	Sean Morrison	Male Vet	12 foot	385	0	385	21	3
42

CapeStorm Mountain Bike Rogaine - 4 November 2007

2	Team Information				Points	Penalty	Grand	Postion
3	Name #1	Name #2	Category	Event	Score		Total	Overall	Cat.
4	Arrie De Swardt	Ryno Griesel	Male Open	5 bike	1600	0	1600	1	1
5	Sakkie Van Wyk	Benjamin Van Wyk	Male Open	5 bike	1490	5	1485	2	2
6	Alex Pope	Nathan Thompson	Male Open	5 bike	1300	0	1300	3	3
7	Alec Avierinos	Clinton Hardenberg	Male Open	5 bike	1280	110	1170	4	4
8	Stephan Muller	Heidi Muller	Mixed	5 bike	1120	0	1120	5	1
9	Anita Stoll	Karin Stoll	Female Vet	5 bike	1100	0	1100	6	1
10	Derek Putter	Emily Clarke	Mixed	5 bike	1040	0	1040	7	2
11	Jan Delpoort	Liesbet Delpoort	Mixed	5 bike	1040	0	1040	8	3
12	Michele Botha	Liz Mulder	Female Open	5 bike	1000	0	1000	9	1
13	Stefan Horn	Johan Van Dijkhorst	Male Open	5 bike	980	0	980	10	5
14	David Hall	Elmarie Mulder	Mixed	5 bike	1040	70	970	11	4
15	Con Loubser	Jacques Booysen	Male Open	5 bike	940	30	910	12	6
16	Jose De Sousa	Adele Drake	Mixed	5 bike	780	30	750	13	5
17	William Cairns	Mike Underwood	Male Open	5 bike	680	0	680	14	7
18	Glen Terry	Eddie Bevan	Male Vet	5 bike	580	0	580	15	1
19	John Wattrus	Andrew Sparrow	Male Open	5 bike	580	10	570	16	8
20	Tim Deane	Paul Burnett	Male Open	5 bike	570	0	570	17	9
21	Debby Hall	Elsie Grobler	Female Vet	5 bike	440	0	440	18	2
22	Mark Anderson	Debbie Smith	Mixed	5 bike	390	0	390	19	6
23	Kath Burnett	Cath Martin	Female Open	5 bike	340	0	340	20	2
24	Reichardt Groenewald	Karen Pretorius	Mixed	5 bike	370	105	265	21