Trip to Malawi (2000) by Lee Miller—Part III
Our next trip was to Cape Maclear where we stayed at the Chembe Lodge – Cape Maclear‘s most up-market
establishment. Along the beach in front of the Lodge were schools of thousands of fry, no bigger than a
centimetre or two, that were seeking shelter in the shallows from the predators in the deeper water. As we
walked along the beach these fry would flee into the deeper water, only to return to the relative safety of the
shallows as we passed. From the Lodge we headed off in the Lord Justin to snorkel at Domwe Island, Otter
Point, Thumbi West and Zimbawe Rocks.
At Thumbi West we saw Cobalt Blue fry swimming amongst the rocks in the shallows, where they had plenty
of cover, they were spectacular and really stood out compared to most of the other fry that we saw.
Zimbawe Rocks is the tip of an underwater mountain and is not a large area. It‘s the home of the Sulphur
Crested lithobate. We saw couple of nice males but they usually live quite deep and Paul
Talbot claimed that he almost burst a lung trying to follow one down to its home turf. Given the relatively
small size of the Zimbawe Rocks area and the small number of lithobates that we saw, I would guess that
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