November 4Our adventures took us to Banana Islands today! This trip required us travelling to another village and renting another hand-made wooden canoe with a motor- smaller then the one we took a couple days earlier.
This boat ride was a lot rougher with us crashing into the waves and being sprayed with ocean water as we went (the swaying side to side in the canoe later in the day was just as bad if not worse).
Once at Banana Islands, we boated our way around them, stopping at a town for a tour. We watched a man making a canoe from a tree, and were shown the landmarks while saying “Koushay” (Hello, in Krio) to various villagers.
We made our way around the Island by boat, and stopped at the beach where we had dropped off a cook and his supplies earlier. He had a wonderful meal ready for us with flavoured rice, fish, fries (made from cassava root), and chicken for me (which had clucked all the way to the Island with us in the boat!).
The boat ride back was a lot calmer, but we still had to drive home in the dark. Fortunately, Paul, our driver, saw the herd of cows being lead down the road before we hit them… actually, on second thought, they were hard to miss! Just part of being in Africa, I guess!
S.W.
We are very much enjoying your pictures. Still missing you. Jaymi was saying on Sunday that it just didn't seem right not to have you here but she was very happy that you could be together as a Wiebe family. We are all happy for you.
ReplyDeleteMost of our Sunday's have been spent travelling... we are missing you guy's too! We're already thinking about the slide show of pictures we want to show you... we'll have to edit it though, as we have around 4000 already!
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