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Facing Into the Storm
After a delayed start, we’d eventually loaded everyone and everything onto the vessel in the bluff harbour. The excitement of beginning our adventure could hardly be quelled by anything. At least...
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Head to Head with Zambezi Sharks
Having faced an uphill battle in our first two weeks, our luck has begun to change. We have identified the problems with the engine and we have acquired a very talented cameraman. Richard is from the...
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Lo Entropy and the Crew are Back in the Game!
Expeditions have a way of bringing out a side of people that we might not see otherwise, and which renew our faith in each other time and again. They bring out the selfless actions that expect no...
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Reaching Mozambique
Grim faces woke up in the early morning of what had been a very wonderful few days’ sail up the coast. None of us really wanted to really believe it, but our engine had again stopped working, and we...
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Searching for the elusive Sousa & the mythical sawfish – Part I.
- ‘Where are you off to?’ - ‘Guinea-Bissau’ Queue quizzical look, which led me to explain that Guinea-Bissau (hereafter GB) was a small country to the south of Senegal, on the coast of West Africa....
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Whales and the Warrior
I have spent nearly 4 years with Greenpeace at sea. These years have brought many interesting encounters and experiences, but nothing’s been quite like yesterday. Off the Eastern coast of South...
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Kicking Tofo Sand
After the craziness that was Tofo over the Christmas season, things have finally begun to calm down to a nice peaceful pace. Gone are the drumming and thronging of car engines and sound stereos. They...
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Getting our groove back
Inhambane, Mozambique, was not going to make it easy for us to just leave her in one easy swoop. No sooner had we loaded the boat up with some of our heavier clobber from the beach, the heavens decided...
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Karibu Tanzania!
Processing the boat and us into Tanzania was nothing short of smooth and efficient. On the left is a piki-piki; on the right is a bajaji – a motorised tricycle with a covered seating area for up to...
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Trekking for trash
Did you know that it takes three million steps to cover a distance of 3 000 kilometres? Social change adventurers Michael Baretta and Camilla Howard know all about it, with every last step their...
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