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  Joined: Tue Nov 20 2007, 10:54AM Posts: 17 | Recieved from Stelio Folgosa, Germany My story is a trivial one, but I share your interest for photography and for Pomene. Here it goes: I am now living in Germany but was born in Milange, Mozambique, close to the border with Malawi. I studied engineering at Wits and after graduating in the late 60’s started working for a German company, which eventually led me to where I live today. In about 1971 I visited Pomene with some friends in my VW beetle, after making some stops on the way north up the coast, starting in LM (in those days, today’s Maputo). When we got to the turn off on the main road leading to Pomene, in mid afternoon, the local people told me that only 4 wheel drive vehicles (they called them Land Rovers or Jeeps, for obvious reasons) could get through to the coast, but I decided to try. Unfortunately I had to turn back after more than an hour up and down the sand dunes, just following the tracks of the trucks and 4x4s. There was no need to hold the steering wheel because the car just could not get out of the tracks. When I decide to turn back because it was getting late (about 6 PM) we had to clear and flatten the sand track ahead of the VW with our hands and then pick up speed and jerk the steering at the right moment, to be able to get off the tracks and turn the car around to get back in the tracks. Overtaking or crossing other vehicles was easy for me, as I could only stay in the tracks while they got out and back in. The next day we got up in the morning and found someone with a truck who gave us a lift to the beach, and when going over the last dune we could see the magnificent view of the small bay and the beach protected by the rocks. I took a beautiful slide from the rocks looking over the beach where our tent was pitched and showing the setting sun in the west, over the palm trees. The skin diving was not very successful, but it did not matter much. The reason for the lack of success was simlpy our bad fishing skills, not the lack of fish. We camped in our small tent and had some lovely meals at the tourist facilities, the only hotel if I am not mistaken. The waves hitting the rocks and projecting jets of water upwards, through the many natural pipes on the rocks caused by marine erosion, was a sight I never forgot. That single slide, taken with a box Kodak camera, the simplest available, has amazed many friends who immediately think that I may have used one of my Konica SLR’s (the Konica T was my first SLR, but I now have quite a few in my collection, plus some Canon equipment including 2 Canon F1’s and more recently a canon D20). It was the beauty of the scenery and not the quality of the camera or the photographer which made the slide so great. Mozambique is appearing more and more in local travel magazines in recent months and it makes me vey happy to notice that. I am now retired and hope to spend some months later in the year in Mozambique and SA, possibly starting in Tanzania and going down the coast to Maputo. For that purpose I recently got a book titled “Reisen in Mosambik? by Ilona Hupe and Manfred Vachal, in German obviously. I found the book very useful and all the information about Mozambique which I know about seems to be correct and up to date. The book devotes only half a page to Pomene, but it mentions the “Pomene Bay Lodge?, the “Pomene View Lodge? and the fact that the road, or better the tracks, leading to the beach appears to be exactly as it was when I travelled on it more than 30 years ago, which I Find particularly appealing because it shows that natural beauty of the place has been preserved. Kind regards Stelio Folgosa Germany [ Edited Sat Mar 15 2008, 07:38AM ] Being the webmaster for Pomene.com does not make me an expert on Pomene. Yes I do have access to lots of the inside information on Pomene but I live in South Africa and I rely on information passed on to me by others. I am a professional photographer and I spend a lot of time photographing Mozambique lodges and resorts. | ||
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