Tanker Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 Curiousity bored the cat... Lake Malawi is SO big... Vancouver Island is 'shorter'. You can darn near fit the island IN the lake... except that VI is a little wider in most points. It would take about 5 hours to go from end to end in a 'cigarette boat' or 9 hours riding on a JetSki (and 11 tanks of gas). 12,600,000,000 bottles of Evian. Which means it would take Evian 16 years to drain the lake at their current annual production rates. Just playing around with some numbers, and figured I'd see if things I 'knew' woud put something I'll never see for myself into perspective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happeboy Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 Its just sad to think how quickly humans could screw it up even with out trying to hard... but interesting facts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qattarra Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 s'ok no one wants to hurt you....put the calculator down...gently now...no one gets hurt. This isn't a needle...nooo....it's just happiness in liquid form...you'll really like it.....it's time to go back to your room now...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
African_Fever Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 From Stuart's place, you can barely see the other side of the lake. If it weren't for the hills, you wouldn't be able to. It takes 3 hours from Salima/Senga bay to the Maleri's (the closest 'real' dive site), and I think somewhere around 11 hours to go to Likoma/Chizumulu in Stuart's boats. I don't remember seeing a single jet ski or cigar boat the whole time, let alone something that even resembles a ski boat. Lots of dugout canoes and ~12' wooden boats with small outboards, but even that took us about 3 hours to go from Nkhata Bay to Lion's cove. Yeah, lots of time in the boats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevchewy Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 Would you ever go back Kyle? for vacation or to collect new fish for your tanks? nev Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slough Shark Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 Forgive me for being oblivious, but who's Stuart? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanker Posted May 31, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 Stuart Grant. http://www.lakemalawi.com/ < his site. Click on the link in Kyle's signature to see how he knows Stuart, and why Kyle has memories the rest of us call dreams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toirtis Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 why Kyle has memories the rest of us call dreams. Like getting stung by an unidentified scorpion far, far away from a hospital, and with no one around that spoke any real English....like a fantasy, even. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snaggle Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 Didn't you just get married? And your wife lets you spend time to do tish kind of stuff, can she talk to mine I :smokey:, need more time to do stuff like that. Brad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
African_Fever Posted June 1, 2007 Report Share Posted June 1, 2007 I didn't just get married Brad, a little ways from that still. Christian - I can't believe I sometimes forget about that little 'incident'. Was scary at the time, but just another story to be told now. Nev - I'd love to go back, and the sooner the better. Just going on 'vacation' there would be enough, the bringing home of fish for your own tanks is a bonus but wouldn't be the main reason for going (unless I was getting involved in some kind of breeding operation and needed new stock). For a hobbyist to see where the fish they've been keeping almost all their life it was truly a dream come true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snaggle Posted June 1, 2007 Report Share Posted June 1, 2007 I didn't just get married Brad, a little ways from that still. I ment Tanker this is his thread is it not? Brad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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