With the boy away in Niger for 5 days and an empty weekend,
empty house and the offer of a girls trip to the beach, I hopped on a trotro
early on Saturday morning to visit one of Ghana’s main tourist attractions,
Cape Coast. While it is big for its
Castle (one of the largest slave holding sites in the world, back in the day),
I spent most of my weekend people watching on the beach.
The main beach attraction is the resident pig family! Who knew, pigs seem to like the beach for the
opportunities for foraging among the piles of litter, as well as taking a quick
dip in the sea. Well I enjoyed it, so I
guess why not!
Second on the amusement list had to be the large number of
American kids in town. There is a cruise
ship that does a ‘Semester at Sea’, which seemed to be large groups of young
adults getting very drunk on cheap alcohol and playing drinking games that were
probably only just acceptable in college bars.
Against the back drop of the cultural dancers at the bar, it was a total
assault on eyes and ears.
Third on the list has to be the fishing boats battling their
way out to sea. The waves along this
coast, and the subsequent under tow, and pretty big and getting one of these
boats out there looks like a lot of work.
I am surprised we didn’t see any go over. By late morning they were coming back with
hauls of fish to be sold straight from the beach.
Lastly part of the charm and beauty of Cape Coast is in the
colonial buildings, now mostly run down and shabby, many painted in the bright
colours of various mobile phone companies.
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