Happy birthday babes !! – Looks like Sydney has put on a nice summer day for you today – Hope this is a taste for what the rest of the year will be like for you.
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Imagine light blue water and white sandy beaches…, pitty we could only stay for a week.
We got lucky and we were upgraded to a 5 star hotel called DinaRobin ( First name of the island given to it by it’s first discoverers -the Arabs – meaning “Silver Island” )
The four of us, Linda, Anne-Marie, Victor and I made sure we made use of all the facilities available to the guests. We did some wakeboarding, sailing ( yes I did tip the boat but theres no photo of that ), tennis, table tennis, boules, relaxing at the pool and as many of the wonderfull restaurants as we possibly could.
Lucky for us the week there included a visit to Emelia and Andrew’s awesome place. We got to play terrible golf at a beautifull golf course. We went dolphin watching on a huge cat and played volleyball on Ile’de Surf.
I offered a “How to drink Whiskey” class and had a few eager students
Sam took it easy the next day, infact I think he probably won’t drink Whiskey again 
Thanks to Charlene we got a nice anniversary cake to celebrate our 4 year anniversary
Did a bit of underwater walking
We spent a nice afternoon traveling up one of the rivers, swam from pool to pool and jumped a few rocks.
What is a holiday without a bit of adrenaline and adventure – Pic the biggest waterfall in the area and jump off it into a unknown pool of water.
I have hundreds of photos on this trip and wish I could put them all on – but it would take hours. I hope this will give you a idea of what a wonderfull place it is and the time we had.
Emelia and Andrew – Thanks again, you have been awesome hosts. I only hope I can return the favour here in Oz
You don’t know whats hot until you have been to the Zambezi in October. 43 Degrees in the shade is the order of the day and you will have to wait until at least 2:30 AM before it starts cooling down.
The trip there was as exciting as the the fishing itself. We, My Dad, Andre, Victor and I, flew to Lusaka in Zambia with South African airways as the first part of the journey. We were received there by a travel agent that helped us through customs and into a 4×4 in minutes. The service was something I have never experienced before. From there we got moved to a domestic airport where we were greated with some beers in hand. Enough time for a smoke and then into another little plane for the next leg of the journey that took about 45 min. to a airstrip right next to the Zambezi river about 10 min drive from our camp Kasaka.
Our days started at day break with a friendly knock-knock at the tent opening ( Since there is no door to knock on our guide just said knock-knock until he got some response from someone inside the tent ).
The tents are permanetly fixed with solid bathroom walls and beautifully furnished with dark wooden furniture.
We did 2 fishing trips a day, one in the morning that finished around 11 and another in the afternoon until just before dark.
The Yellow Shirt competition was won by everyone on the trip at some point in time ( Goes to the one that has caught the biggest fish to date ). Victor won with a 13 Pound Tiger.
We had a few visitors on the camp from time to time – Even got chased out of the pool once.
The last day of fishing we ended with a quick trip back to camp through the game park and ran into a nice pride of lions.
Dad, Vic, Andre – Thanks guys it was awesome !
Dad went to a Scottish formal on Saturday ( Here is a photo ) – Hope you have an awesome day dad ! Can’t wait to see you guys – less than a month and we are there.
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