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.