A trip to an Island and a discovery that fish tastes good!

From Ilha de Mozambique we took a day trip on a dhow across to a tiny island called Goa which was once a stop off on the trading route between Goa in India and the African coast. It only took about ten minutes to walk from one end of the island to the other and we climbed to the top of a lighthouse from where you could see the whole island covered in cacti and surrounded by such pretty white sands, turquoise seas.

We then continued on our day trip to a beautiful beach on the mainland, buying colourful fish just caught by the fishermen as we past them in the sea.

I've not eaten fish since before I can remember and I don't intend to eat it again, but I decided that here was a place that I should try it. Although I had to try and put the thought that of what I was eating out of my mind, it did taste really good. I had the tentacle of a squid and a very small mouthful of the three different types of fish. All were cooked just with garlic and lemon for seasoning and the fish were cooked on sticks over a fire, whilst the squid was cooked in a frying pan.

The beach on the mainland had hundreds of little crabs all running in and out of the sea and all facing the same direction. There was a lagoon where we found lion fish and lots of black, yellow and white stripey fish, and then on the way back to Ihla de Mozambique we had views of the walls of the fort which glowed as the sun began to set. It was an extremely relaxing day!