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Palm-fringed beaches

very splendid Zona Braza Beach Resort. fruit and home-made pickles line the road tower. As the African Hobby is rarely seen
We dined at the restaurant, sampled some at each settlement. Every half hour or so in the Southern Africa region, this was a
Portuguese wines and celebrated the great we drove through a police checkpoint, major sighting.
bird sightings seen over the past eight days. but mostly all three vehicles were waved
through. Radio communication between Etienne’s bird knowledge is phenomenal,
The EN1 main road is a single carriageway all the vehicles helped to keep us all as is his knowledge of the particular
and as there are many small settlements together. location of the birds we hoped to see and
and schools along the road, the maximum his ability to find them. His planning of the
speed limit of 100km/h is very frequently On our last day driving back to South Africa, trip was excellent, and this contributed to
reduced to 80km/h, and then 60km/h. we stopped outside Xai-Xai, where Etienne a very successful and memorable birding
Vendors selling cashew nuts, clay pots, pointed out an African Hobby atop a radio experience in southern Mozambique.

Local fishermen

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