Snack day

LAT 13°23.106 N

LON 16°32.650 W

Speed: 6.9kn

Course: 341°

UTC Time: 16:19:15

UTC Date: 30-11-2011

We’ve managed to see the national park with tons of birds and monkeys. Supposedly there’re leopards living there, but we’ve seen none.

To properly celebrate our little expedition, we opened a bottle of Port wine. Two, to be exact. That lead the girls to be super cheerful and when the dolphins appeared in the middle of the night, it was time to join them, not thinking about the current… So I had the chance to be the hero of the night, hunting naked women in the river Gambia. It was fun. At least for me.

In the day, we had another little expedition, my task was to sleep as hard as I can and I did it. Till 10 in the morning, then a little breakfast and off again till something past eleven. Then we had the official breakfast and pulled off the anchor.

We’re arriving back to Banjul now, and on the way we stopped on the pirate island named James island, that was cool. And I learned that it was a pirate island from 1817 to 1819:)

And at the moment we’re being attacked by zillions of butterflies and other insects. Fun, but not on my jam!

Now I’m thinking how to get the stuff for Farak, the owner of the shop next to the CVD. I would like to make it and get him the Gambian “kamara”, a kind of belt/bag that he would like to use as an enduro belt. He owns an impressive collection of enduro bikes, some very old, but good, like the BMW GS850 and  we spoke about taking them for a spin out of Dakar, but we have to make a plan on how to avoid police controls.

Just before we left, he sold his KTM Adventure 660 that was bought after the race from Paris. This must be a sweet bike to ride in the sand.