Paul and Eli Blog in Moz

We arrived in Nacala today alter an almost 3 week hiatus! Eli´s mom and Lyn visited us, and we spent about a week in Nacala, visiting the ilha of Mozambique and some other places, but the real highlight of our trip was a safari in Kruger park, South Africa. We just got back from a 4 day walking safari in a private game reserve, and then rented a car to actually go into the public part of Kruger park.

Unfortunately Eli and I have a lot of school work to make up- it´s almost the end of the 2^nd trimester and we´ve got to finish grading- so today I won´t do the full report of the last 3 weeks. But I do have some good pictures to give you a taste of what we´ve been up to! Enjoy, and I´ll be putting up a lot more pix in the near future! (As soon as time permits!)

Eli, Renée and Lyn in the Jeep (actually land rover or some such) taking some pix of the animals. We usually traveled a little ways in the jeep before starting on our walks. It´s also a great way to see the animals because you can get a good view with the lack of windows or doors to get in the way!

This is the bay of Nacala! As seen from Bay Diving the touristy resort that´s near our house. Of course we don´t get out here that often, but we are right on the bay (just farther down).

Eli and her mom on Ilha de Mozambique. You can tell it´s cold because Eli has wrapped herself up in a capulana! We spent the night on the ilha and had a really good time! Unfortunately it also rained on that trip, after almost 2 months with out ANY rain!! Weird!






















Safari Pictures! We saw a lot of animals, and especially on the walking safari we got to be fairly close to some of them. Lyn had the best camera and took the most pix, hopefully I´ll get a CD of them sometime soon and then we´ll see some nice animal close ups! (He had a 400mm zoom lense!)