Saturday, our port-of-call was the city of Mindelo on the island of Saint Vincent in Cape Verde off the west coast of Senegal in Africa. Cape Verde is and independent country which became independent from Portugal in b1975. It consists of 10 islands, 9 of which are inhabited.
Our excursion today was "Panoramic Cape Verde". We travelled by bus up to the top of th highest mountain on the island - Monte Verde which is 2441 ft /744 meters) high. We saw several of the beaches on the island
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| Moonshine |
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| Venus at first color |
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| The full moon setting |
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| The harbor pilot arriving |
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| Where we will dock |
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| An interesting looking lighthouse |
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| In the main showroom waiting for our excursion groups to be called |
Buildings we passed on our drive
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| We were getting higher up the mountain |
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| we saw some goats grazing |
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| a rough, twisty, narrow road |
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| A brown-necked raven |
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| Clouds were starting to move in |
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| Our bus. |
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| Lots of raians of old buildings. This is a national park now. |
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| Old garden terraces |
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| We could see our ship |
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| More goats. |
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| Then we went to see a beach. We were tod all the sand here had blown over from the Sahara Desert. |
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| A site where large festivals are held. |
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| Monte Verde that where went up on |
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| Back to the ship |
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| The Cape Verde flag |
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| We walked down to this beach |
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| We were close to the ship |
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| I had a local beer (or 2) |
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| Beautiful blue water here |
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| Monte Verde |
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| The view from the front of the ship |
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| Sailing away |
The wim
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| The wind was blowing strongly |
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| Nearing sunset |
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| entering a layer of clouds |
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| and out again |
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| A full moon rising |
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