Sport
Nkhata Bay’s local football team are the Nkhata Bay Police; the team were renamed to Eagle Strikers and now play in Mzuzu. The team play in the TNM Super League. There is a ladies’ football team in Nkhata Bay, and are called the Nkhata Bay United Sisters of Malawi. The club was founded in 2003. Netball is also played in Nkhata Bay. In June 2008, the champions of Nkhata Bay were Kawalazi, and received a prize of 30,000 Malawian Kwacha.
Each summer there is a multi-day yacht race which starts at Cape Maclear in the south, and ends at Nkhata Bay.
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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