Our daily life
We’ve finished the process of buying and are now the happy owners of Odyssea Dive. We should start working in a few days.
Everything’s very exciting even though we know it’s not going to be an easy game everyday. Since the end of last year the guys we took over from didn’t do a lot which means that there are many things we need to do to put some order everywhere. And, as far as I’m concerned, I’ll need to learn lots of things: filling the tanks, mix oil and petrol for the compressor and for the engines, servicing the regulators, etc… And I still did not try to driving the boat from it’s parking to the water with a very long 10 mt trailer… that seems quite an adventure!
Our home is very basic at the moment. It would be more realistic to speak about a « comfortable camping » than a proper house. The beautiful surroundings, giving us the impression we’re living in paradise make things easily acceptable and living in our office makes things easier for the beginners we are!
At the moment things look like this : a room in the dive center with a mattress on the floor, a “mosquito tent” on top, a wire as a wardrobe, chairs to stock our clothes and a big steel table (that Denis kindly hid under a piece of cloth) to store the rest of our stuff. Food supplies in the room. Now you see it! Toilets and sink are in the dive shop. Shower outside (cold water)… Here you are.. You’re at my new place!!!!
Some things go wrong!
We’re still not connected to the communal power plant. This means that everything runs with generators. Since we don’t have our own we are totally depending on the landlord’s willing to give us power (the dive center is built on the land of a backpackers place called Baobab). This means that, as per today, power is in from 5.30 (when night is already here) to 9/9.30 pm… sometimes more when they have guests. Sometimes less when they run out of fuel!!!
Water… the first day I was here… no water. Since then it happened only another time but one of the first things we bought is a very nice bucket that’s permanently filled with water, just in case we end up with no water at the precise moment we’re covered in soap.
Internet… we share a modem and have a very very slow connection!!! But at least it works!
But the hardest thing to deal with is the temperature. It’s winter time in Mozambique and the first week I was here has been one of the coldest ever here… Welcome! During the daytime the temperature is fine: 24/25°. But as soon as dusk comes, it gets fresher and fresher… I’m crying over all the long sleeves t-shirts and jumpers I didn’t bring because very small and thin tops were taking the entire place in the backpack! Anyway, since when the wind comes blows from south, bringing with him all the cold of the South-African mountains, it gets really chilly, we bought a beautiful cover, with a very nice and delicate flower pattern and made, I think, with dog hairs!!! It’s absolutely awful, but at least I do not wake up totally frozen any more…