Wednesday, we were in Dakar, Senagal. Senagal was colonized by the French as was known as French West Africa until it became independent in 1960. Dekar is infamous for being a key slave trading post. The island at the mouth of the harbor - Goree Island was a major transshipment point from the 15th to 19th centuries. The Dakar metropolitan area has a population of 4 million.
Our excursion was "Bandia Wildlife Park".
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| Ship at anchor waiting for entry to theport |
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| First light to the day |
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| Smal long boats all around here |
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| First sight of the sun |
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| Goree Island at entrance to the Dakar harbor |
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| Approaching the harbor |
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| We will dock at the pier on the left |
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| Vendors setting up on the pier |
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| Black Kites flying overhead all day |
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| Waiting to be called for our ecursion . We were Blue 16 for Bandia Wildlife Park |
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| Street scenes on way to the wildlife park which was about 45 miles away. |
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| Mant Mosques here, The city and country are about 95% Muslim |
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| A Baobob tree. It has no leaves until the rainy season (July to October) |
There were toll roads here
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| Along the side of the road onc we got off the highway |
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| The entrance to the Bandia Wildlife Park |
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| The first animals seen were some monkeys |
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| Onto the safari vehicles |
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| Anothe Baobab tree |
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| Red Acaciatrees |
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| Ring-necked Dove |
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| A Little Egret |
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| Helmuted Guineafowl |
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| Ostrich |
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| A male giraffe |
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| Crocodiles |
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| Warthogs |
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| White Rinocerous |
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| two young zebras |
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| a zebra family |
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| a type of eland |
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| a family of Patas Monkeys |
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| Grey Heron |
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| An over 900 year old Baobab |
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| A Green Monkey |
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| Seen by the road on our return to the ship |
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| White Pelicans |
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| Many motorcycles/scooters on the freeways |
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| A major traffic jam on the toll road on way back |
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| A bus on it's side |
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| And a second bus on it's side next to it. Not sure how this happened. We were an hour late getting back to the ship. Another bus behind us was 3 hours late |
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| Near the port |
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| Back in the port near our ship |
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| The harbor control tower |
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| Dutch and Senagal flags |
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| Captain took a walk on the pier |
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| We have sailed away from the dock |
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| Sailing away |
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| Goree Island near the harbor entrance |
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| The pilot boat coming to pick up harbor pilot |
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| Dakar along the coast |
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| Fishing boats |
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| Fishing lines |
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