{"id":2140,"date":"2018-06-18T12:17:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T10:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/?p=2140"},"modified":"2018-06-18T12:29:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T10:29:51","slug":"situ-island-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/?p=2140","title":{"rendered":"Situ Island Resort"},"content":{"rendered":"

With all the traveling we get to do in the course of filming the Inside Angling TV series, we visit a lot of lodges, hotels and resorts around Africa and the Indian Ocean islands. Every now and then we come across a rare little gem, a place that is different and has something special going for it. Recently, we enjoyed a direct flight from Johannesburg to Pemba on Airlink<\/a> and visited Situ Island in the Quirimbas Archipelago in Northern Mozambique, which we found it to be exactly one of these little gems.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Our first impression on arrival was of a hidden private place, set right on the beach. The sandstone outcrops in the water in front of and around the lodge provide for beautiful scenery, and the buildings blend in with the vegetation of the island.<\/p>\n

We were welcomed into the main building, where we encountered a relaxed atmosphere and simple, yet comfortable furnishings. The floor is beach sand, so you take off your sandals and don\u2019t use them again until you leave. The ultimate in barefoot luxury.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

The bar is a \u2018help yourself\u2019 honesty version, where you pour your own drinks and write down what you\u2019ve taken in a book. There is an iced water machine in the lounge, where you are able to help yourself to as much chilled water as you like, something that\u2019s unusual in the tropics! There is a small staff compliment and the whole place has an intimate feel, very different to most commercial lodges.<\/p>\n

Situ is run by Craig and Tessa Macdonald, a South African couple from East London, who are passionate about Situ Island and its surrounds. Craig skippered us on our fishing excursions, and kept us entertained with his quirky sense of humour, then got straight into the kitchen whenever we arrived back at the lodge and started putting together delicious meals. He is a chef of note and as passionate about good food as he is about the island. Tessa runs the diving, snorkeling, kayak paddling and other activities and is very involved with, and knowledgeable about the environment and creatures of Situ. One of the more remarkable things she does is hand feed the Moray Eels on the reef in front of the lodge on the low tide, where they come swarming out and surround her as she hands out tasty tit bits.
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

Everything about Situ is relaxing. The staff keep a low profile, but are never far away if you need them. Craig and Tessa were helpful and nothing was too much trouble for them, they were very happy for us to set the pace and customize our own schedule each day, their flexibility made it easy for us to relax and appreciate this piece of paradise.<\/p>\n

Meals at Situ were nothing short of outstanding. They buy seafood fresh from the locals and we were served delicious fresh seafood daily, complimented by loads of fresh salads, homemade sauces, pickled fish and of course the most finger licking good Mozambican chicken. In fact the food alone is enough of a reason to visit Situ!<\/p>\n

There are plenty of reefs in the area and one doesn\u2019t need to travel very far to get to fishing spots. Species that we came across included Gt\u2019s, Bluefin Kingfish, Bigeye Kingfish, Amberjack, Dogtooth Tuna, King Mackerel, Green Jobfish and Pickhandle Barracuda. There were also plenty of Yellowfin Tuna about and we saw Sailfish jumping, though we didn\u2019t target those species. Broadbill Swordfish are also targeted at night near Situ, so the fishing potential is excellent.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

What really excited me was the form of the reefs. There is incredible structure, with some huge steps, ledges and walls under the water. The potential for fishing amongst such structure is exceptional.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

I have tucked Situ Island Resort<\/a> into my personal portfolio of places I would love to get back to again soon.<\/p>\n

Just hope it isn\u2019t too long before I do.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With all the traveling we get to do in the course of filming the Inside Angling TV series, we visit a lot of lodges, hotels and resorts around Africa and the Indian Ocean islands. Every now and then we come across a rare little gem, a place that is different and has something special going for it. Recently, we enjoyed a direct flight from Johannesburg to Pemba on Airlink and visited Situ Island in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":2141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/WFTWEBBLOG_150518_OP.png","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3541,"url":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/?p=3541","url_meta":{"origin":2140,"position":0},"title":"Zambezi River God Adventures","author":"Craig Thomassen","date":"November 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"When conditions present a challenge, then sometimes we have to adjust our focus and our techniques, in order to make the most of our trip.This happened to us recently on a fishing trip to the lower Zambezi, where we had been invited to fish with a new operation called; Zambezi\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3034,"url":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/?p=3034","url_meta":{"origin":2140,"position":1},"title":"Awesome new Dogtooth Tuna location.","author":"Craig Thomassen","date":"February 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"It is not often that anybody gets the opportunity to fish a pristine fishery these days. There are just too few of these untouched areas left on the planet. Last week myself and Brad Cartwright (of Wildfly Travel) had the amazing opportunity to explore one of the few of these\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3300,"url":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/?p=3300","url_meta":{"origin":2140,"position":2},"title":"My PB Crocodile Garfish!","author":"Craig Thomassen","date":"November 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"It is not everyday that any of us catch a personal best, so I was pretty excited last week when I landed my biggest crocodile garfish! I was testing a prototype of a new lure from Rapala, the stickbait version of a XXX Rap. I was in the Seychelles and\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"b2ap3_thumbnail_DSC_6679.JPG","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fishbook.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/b2ap3_thumbnail_DSC_6679.JPG?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3460,"url":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/?p=3460","url_meta":{"origin":2140,"position":3},"title":"Alphonse, a place of beauty and mayhem.","author":"Craig Thomassen","date":"April 4, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I was very fortunate to visit Alphonse Island in the Seychelles last week. \u00a0Alphonse has to be one of the top five fishing destinations on earth, with the fantastic variety and numbers of fish on and around the atoll. \u00a0 The thing that always strikes me when I visit this\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fishbook.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/b2ap3_thumbnail_DSC_0249.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2272,"url":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/?p=2272","url_meta":{"origin":2140,"position":4},"title":"Cunene River Mouth Trip","author":"Craig Thomassen","date":"August 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"When we planned our recent trip to Flamingo Lodge in Southern Angola, I was hoping for reasonably flat seas. This would make it possible to do the 250 km drive south along the beach to the Cunene River mouth. I had attempted to do the journey with some friends back\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Inside Angling"","block_context":{"text":"Inside Angling","link":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/?cat=35"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fishbook.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSC_0024-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fishbook.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSC_0024-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fishbook.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSC_0024-1.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fishbook.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSC_0024-1.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fishbook.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSC_0024-1.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fishbook.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSC_0024-1.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5965,"url":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/?p=5965","url_meta":{"origin":2140,"position":5},"title":"I Met The GT’s of Farquhar","author":"Rhuan Human","date":"July 15, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"We all know or have met someone who ranks somewhere on the alphabet of the \"celebrity\" scale and all of us, even the ones who deny it, will drop name at some point about these chance encounters. \"Did I ever tell you about the time I had dops with the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Fly Fishing"","block_context":{"text":"Fly Fishing","link":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/?cat=23"},"img":{"alt_text":"I Met The GT's of Farquhar","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fishbook.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Unknown-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fishbook.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Unknown-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fishbook.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Unknown-1.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fishbook.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Unknown-1.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fishbook.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Unknown-1.jpeg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fishbook.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Unknown-1.jpeg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8sv9-yw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions\/2142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishbook.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}