Wednesday, 2 February 2011



Me and ben practicing our paddling / action poses! We stopped half way down the zambezi to jump off a huge rock which was fun - the zambezi divides zambia and zimbabwe and we were jumping off rocks on the zimbabwe side so I think I can officially say I've been to zimbabwe! Not long after this the latch came off my underwater camera and its now still full of water so no more underwater shots for me but the big camera's still going strong!


So after Malawi we headed to the capital of Zambia, Livingstone to indulge in some extreme whitewater rafting down the Zambezi! Flipped the boat twice and there were crocodiles in the water - rock and roll!

The morning after a couple of people headed to the bridge over the zambezi to do bungi jumping and I went to video it for them - you do the bungi from a bridge over the zambezi which divived zambia and zimbabwe so you don't actually have to cross countries but there is a sign half way across the bridge showing that you have entered zimbabwe. A guy on the bridge sold me some zimbabwe dollars for around 50p (they're no longer in use because of the ridiculous inflation under Mugabe - they use american dollars now) so I'm the proud owner of a $50 billion note!


After Malawi we headed to Zambia and the capital Livingstone the home of Vic Falls. This was our first view of the falls discovered by Dr Livingstone and named after queen victoria who was queen at the time. It's an awesome view which pictures can't really do justice because of all the spray from the falls and how big the falls are but they're pretty incredible.


The next day we were going to get kayaks out again and go round the island but they were all out so we stepped it up a bit and me and ben took charge of a cat! It was going well for the first 10 mins until the wind died and then we spent the next 2 hours trying to get out the the island - it was a struggle but we did finally manage it although I had to swim the last 50 metres!

When we did finally make it out to the island we found some rocks to jump off with the locals. They were going for more ambitious running jumps but I think we held our own!