December 8-9 — We’re here in Dakar, weeks before our boat arrives, for a few reasons. We want to make sure our boat gets from the shipping container to the water safely and efficiently, and has a secure place to store her while we put her back together and wait for the best weather for launch. We also […]
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December 8 — I have never slept with a mosquito net, and wake up looking at the plain cracked white walls through the tiny mesh and imagine I am in a Rudyard Kipling story. The three of us run through the island and lift rocks on the beach. Pat and Markus head in and I indulge […]
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Gorée Island
December 7 — Get up to surf. Eat a quick breakfast. From the Surf camp come Nejma from Nice, Cole from Adelaide and Conner from Dublin. Today we go to Gorée Island. Traffic through Dakar on this Friday is atrocious, but the novelty of being in Africa, Senegal, and Dakar has not quite worn off. Vibrant murals cover […]
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Meeting Some Friends
Narrow, maze-like streets between four and six feet wide crisscross the tiny island of N’Gor. Markus and I ran, circling the island perhaps two or three times getting lost and found at every intersection before rounding random corners to find a view of the ocean. Well manicured front doors and neatly swept paths give way […]
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Welcome to Dakar
I looked outside the cabin window at the stars above the clouds over the Atlantic, and imagined I was in a giant lawn dart lobbed on a great circle from DC to Dakar. We beat the sunrise to Senegal. Customs, baggage claim, men eager to help with bags, our polite declines took us outside. Markus […]