Two Durban Surfers Hitch to the Congo

In essence, all of what you are about to see and read was about the fulfilment of a childhood dream, started by a simple conversation on a balcony. As chance had it Luke and Jordan were reminiscing about the first time they heard of Mokele-mbembe when they were 6 and 7 years old and discussing how they could possibly go look for it when all of a sudden their parent’s new tenant appeared from downstairs. David had landed up there through a series of interesting, and somewhat unfortunate, events. He was involved in film, running a startup from his bedroom, and asked if they wanted to make a documentary? This is that documentary.   This is the story of two ill-equipped and under-financed cousins, who set out to realise their lifelong dream of finding the legendary water-dwelling creature of the Congo River basin, Mokele-Mbembe. They had no money, just stoke. David had a bit of money and was up for the gamble. There was little chance they’d come back with much, but none the less they charged forward committing to anything and everything nonetheless. In fact, much of the success of ‘coming back with something’ was down to the addition of […]