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Day 8 – Spearfishing! (and a Sandy Beach)

Kosi Bay – Historic Fish Traps and Beach

After breakfast at our Kosi Bay accommodation we all walked down to the historic fish traps where we were introduced to Elmon a local fisherman. Elmon took us into the water and gave us a tour of the traps and showed us how they worked. Unfortunately the tide was too high in the morning to catch fish so we went to the beach for an hour or so.

At the beach we split into three groups – sunbathers, paddlers and ball gamers.

When we returned to the fish traps in the afternoon, Elmon took a few of us back out to the fish traps and Beth, Glyn, Alicia, Lottie, Becky and Adam went into the fish traps to try and spear fish. Three fish were caught, one each by Glyn, Lottie (stabbing it multiple times and getting covered in fish guts/blood) and Adam. The fish were carried to shore and given to Elmon to take home to his family.

Glyn

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Glyn told to spear fish.
Glyn spear fish.
Glyn happy.

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Big Cat and Fish

Leopard! On the night drive last night Stephanie and Adrian saw a Leopard! They saw lots of animals, but I can’t tell you what they were as all they kept saying was “Leopard!!”.

Breakfast this morning brought us a handful of guests to the table, namely the Warthog family.

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The baby warthogs are cheeky as their mum tries to steal our food

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Mmmmmmm foooooood....

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Mummy warthog eyes our lunch hungrily

Out on the boat again today, but disaster stuck. No sooner had we pulled away from the dock than one of the valves snapped on the steering system causing a fountain of pink fluid.

We were covered in hydraulic fluid, but Adrian and Anton were in
heaven as they tried to fix the boat!

pongola boat

After borrowing some tools from a nearby work crew the boys battled with the boat.

Stephanie and I decided that it would be unfair if we let the boys do all the hard work, so we hooked the bait on the lines and opened a couple of beers to keep us hydrated as we fished.

We were going for big catches, namely Hippo and Crocodile (or at least that is what Stephanie and I told anyone that asked)!
After a while the boys decided that the boat could wait as they could see Tigerfish from the boat where it was moored.

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Adrian Catches a Tigerfish on his second Cast!

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Steph plays with Antons little Catfish

Crocodile at Jozini Lake

No Hippos, but we did catch our Crocodile!

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Another s*#t day in Africa....

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Dragon fly radio :)

The Best Way to Travel

The worst bit about any trip is the travelling to get there and then once you are there travelling around in-country.

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A quick lunch with Meera the birthday girl and then it is off on the next leg

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Unexpected lunch guest

Whilst the journey times from our base in Hluhluwe are not too long, we like to mix it up a bit, so the next leg of our journey is by boat.

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On the way down everyone is silently thankful that they don't have to walk back up the hill again!

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Better than aircon!

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Steph makes herself right at home!

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Soon sitting back up for the elephants

 

What a shame it just happens to be on a really good fishing spot too!

 

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Sundowners on the boat with the elephants nearby :)