Pretty much my view for the next couple of hours....



Till we hit Inhammga in the late afternoon ...



From here the sun was going down and we had another 4 hours of travel ahead, the dirt roads are actually better to travel on than the "sealed roads" as the later are in such disrepair that just as soon as you get some speed up you are slowing again for a bloody big pothole !!! I also realised that the locals CAN'T RIDE BIKES (motor or push) AT NIGHT !!!! We had no less than 15 (yes 15, I lost count around then) come a cropper as they came toward us at night. All low speed loss of control in soft sand and no injuries (I think it is actually an accepted method of braking now) and somewhat amusing when you are tired and sore from the long drive !!

About 2030hrs we arrived at the "Croc Camp" (they also hunt Hippo from here) which is located on the banks of the Zambezi near a village called Sena (for those with a map). I think we were all knackered and after dinner (Buffalo Backstraps, salad and some ordinary bread rolls - Jake was not wasting a thing and nursed the Dutch Oven all the way !!! ) it was off to bed.


So... "Croc Camp" .... "Band Camp" but with teeth you ask ??? I don't think so.

The Nile Crocodile (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_crocodile) is a little different than the local variety found here in Australia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltwater_crocodile) but not too much. I note from the Wiki entry (yes taken with a grain of salt) that the Aussie version gets larger and seems more aggressive (true of the average Australian man I would suggest as well... ). In reality I think the differences on these points are mostly academic. If either decides you are lunch you are lunch. I DO think much more is made of Croc attacks here in Aus than they are in Africa (in fact I am positive of this !!!! ) and in fact MANY more people are taken (even per capita) than here. This is a factor of the living arrangements and how the populations of Croc and Human are stacked upon each other all across Africa. One big difference between the two, I CAN legally hunt the Nile Croc...

So the Croc Camp backs onto the Zambezi River up in the mid north of Mozambique. Puttering along the river (in a boat that seemed entire too small to me ) we ended up around 10km from the Malawi border. If I was Madonna I would have nipped up and acquired another child...but I am not.

The morning started with watching the sun come up across the river...





And my first look at my "Ship" for this part of the trip...



Camp here, was comfortable but a little louder than at other locations as there is a small village just outside the boundary fence of the camp.