Rest Day at Chitimba Beach - March 30

There was a really nice breeze flowing through my tent this morning so I just lay there for a while enjoying it. My mat was still a little wet though! Went in to the restaurant and sat there for about 3 hours – just ordering breakfast. Had 2 full English plus 2 lots of fried eggs on toast! Plus coffee of course. There was a boat trip leaving but I initially decided against it as I wasn’t quite ready to leave. A little later back at my tent I heard they were still only just ready to leave to go fishing so I decided to join them after all. I really wanted to go in one of the canoe/kayaks they had there – basically a hollowed out tree trunk – and we thought there would probably be time to do that after the fishing trip. Sounded good. At the beach we hopped into a fairly unstable boat and were quickly joined by about 6 locals – not sure why as it was now definitely far too overcrowded! We set off with the boat rocking all over the place – Bastiaan jumped out straight away – he had already told me he gets sea-sick really easily and so quickly decided against the trip when he saw the situation. At this point I was thinking “Yes I should probably join him” – but I didn’t!! We chugged out at about 5 kmph and finally reached the fishing spot. The fishing rods were simply some line with a hook on the end – the hooks being way too big for the size of fish we wanted to catch. Anyway we did have some fun fishing for a while and had a few catches. But by now I am over it – it was meant to be a 2 hour trip and we had already been out 2 ½ hours and hadn’t turned back yet. I was starting to feel really “yuk”. It took us another hour for the return journey – the guy just dawdling along as if he was in a “no wake” zone. The boat nearly capsized when he went into a wave sideways. Eventually we got back to the beach with me feeling much the worse. By this time I was fed up and no longer interested in a possible kayak trip. On the way back to my tent I noticed all our laundry spread all over the beach to dry. We had given it to a local lady to wash in the lake – not realizing this was ho it would be dried! Interesting!! I rested for a while and then sorted out my bike and my tent. I decided to pack my bag and put it in the truck so all I would need to do in the morning would be pack away my tent and sleeping stuff – I should then be ready quicker in the morning! We then booked in for a meal at the campsite in addition to the TDA meal that evening!! I really am trying to eat as much as possible in an effort to make myself feel better!