Day 14,18 July 2012, Kande Beach to Chitimba Beach, Malawi - 250 kms and a mere 4-5 hours on the roads. Heaven. We are sad to be leaving beautiful Kande Beach as we did not manage to dive! It is, apparently, the windy season and all day yesterday it was blowing wild on-shore gales (and this morning too). There was no chance to get the boat into the surf (on a lake remember) without it flipping and potentially losing divers to the strong currents. C'est la vie...

Day 13,17 July 2012, Kande Beach, Lake Malawi - On arrival at Kande beach last night, after 7 hours of African massage in the back of the truck, we descended on the most surreal place - a fresh water lake in the middle of nowhere, it is huge (Africa's third biggest lake). We were all honour bound to rush in as fast as we humanly could. After an hour or so of paddling around and peering at the fish at our feet, it was time to get out and explore the necessities -...