Next destination - Inhaca Island, located 40km from Maputo, across the bay. Ferry to take us there covers the distance in 2 hours, leaves harbor anytime between 7:30 and 8:15 :). Ferry itself is quite small, with perhaps 70-80 seating spots or so. Luckily it was not very windy this morning so the ride was nice and smooth. Once arrived at the island we found few dolphins greeting us - how nice of them :)
There is no proper port so the ferry itself has to stay a bit behind while smaller boats come to take the goods and passengers on board to transport them to the shore. Quite a deal as you gotta purchase yet another ticket for the small boats helping you to the land. At the beach we were greeted by the local coast guard who gathered 200 meticals from us to preserve the nature on the island and off to Manico Camp we went. Dropped our bags off, checked the facilities - there are outside showers, toilets, little basic camp houses, kitchen, bar and inner court yard. All looks very nice and thought through although basic. All is fine as long as there is electricity at the hut, which there is :), so the movie night is on!
Initially it was planned that I stay here for two nights and my friend for one night, but due to the ferry logistics my friend has to return the same day and I still stay for 2 nights. At the camp we tried to see what is there to do - well, nothing really :) Can go diving, snorkeling, to the lighthouse and to a small island. For today we chose the latter. I don't dive, snorkeling has been done already, for the lighthouse they charge an unbelievably large amount of money, so the island it was. Zoomed by the small village by harbour to grab a sandwich for lunch, hitched a boat from the shore to take us over to Portuguese Island - boat ride took about 10 minutes. Really nice and handy way of getting to the beautiful beach of the tiny island. There isn't much else to do than to enjoy the sand and the sea. At least the weather was beautiful. 2 hours laying in the sun was quite enough to be honest, so gotta find something different to do for tomorrow.
Boat back to Maputo leaves at 3 so we had to arrive back at the main island a bit after 2 for my friend to make it. Lots of waiting around, a very very regular activity over here ;) and back to the camp I went. It is not possible to get around by foot unless one is staying by the overpriced hotel by the port, so camp is organizing transport for me to get back and fourth.
Rest of the afternoon I spent reading, had the tastiest fish for dinner at the camp and headed over to watch a movie. Could not even finish since I struggled to keep my eyes open. Went to sleep before 9 and got my 11 hours of sleep in - that is what I call vacation! I just hope they don't have any roosters or little kids here to start making noise at 6 am :)
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