I just received a friendly message from Tim Robbins from Nairobi Backpackers, he has been telling me that due to the latest problems in Kenya he had a shortage of customers and about 70% of people stoppping to his place were directly or indirectly linked to me.
I left early this morning from Margate and took the N2 from Port Shepstone. 530 kilometers laters, after driving on a shit road for about 7 hours I’m in Cintsa, staying at Buccanner’s Backpackers in a lovely little place. I say shit road because despite being the main national road, the state is similar to the one in Kenya fron Nairobi to Mombasa. Potholes all the way. The major difference is that there is signs ‘potholes for 20km’ every 21km 
When there are not you find work along the road (are they actually fixing the road ??? that would be so nice !) and you have to stop for 10, 20, or 30 minutes… etc..
I’m in Margate right now. I’m staying at Margate Backpackers for R65. Not crowded as usual. I was diving Protea Banks this morning with African Dive Adventures. Protea Banks is supposed to be an advanced dive as you are diving in the blue, go down to 40m and you have a strong current. This is supposed to be THE place to see all kinds of shark. Unfortunately and as it is right now, no sharks but we went through a group of dolphins and we could hear the sounds of dolphins and humpack whales all the way.
I would like to express my sincere thanks to the fucking idiot that managed to create the virus that succeeded in spamming my Apache mail account with hundred of useless mails ‘coming’ from all the developper world. This is especially appreciated in South Africa where it cost R30/hour for a slow shared ISDN connection. I did not even finished picking them all after one hour.
I think I have finished with my dives here. I did Cathedral this morning and ended up seeing a ragged tooth shark but could not manage to take a good picture of it. Visibility was average, a bare 8m. I think I will move by tomorrow toward Margate.
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