Accra beach

Google 'Ghana' and you see pictures of beautiful beaches.
When you come to Accra nobody talks about the Accra beaches. So I investigated this seemingly contradiction.

I started right next to Labadi beach resort, the only place in Accra where people come for the beach. Well, if you see what gets dumped right next to it, you would never come near the sea.

There is a tiny fishing community a little further

 

Rubbish dumps

All the spots you see are pieces of rubbish

This sign does not help at all

 

This stream runs directly to the sea

Roaming the beaches, hoping to find something

A hotel in (not very fast) progress. Trying to copy the success of Labadi beach

The trip ended near Osu castle. You can not go there, there is a little park just in front of it that is visited by nearly nobody. 

Just for those who think we live in Africa and therefor right in between the wild live, yes it is true, here is the proof; an Ostrich in Accra.

Look closely in the middle of the picture.

Cat update

We have our cats now nearly two weeks and all is fine.

From the diary of the cats:
We have learned where the toilet is within two days.
We have memorized the feeding routine and beg for food which is then not to our high standards but we eat it anyway.
We are climbing the mosquito gauze to the displeasure of Lon.
We learned that the lap is an excellent place to do a nap.
We want to explore the rest of the house, but are not allowed yet.
We have a good routine, eat, sleep, play; repeat four times a day.

 

We are not sure what this 'Bob' and 'Ziggy' means these humans seem to be saying all the time.

Small things

Two rather cute small things will be joining us next week - their provisional names are Ziggy (the female tortoiseshell) and Crumble (the ginger tom)

they are well socialised if not that well nourished, but that can be remedied!

Small plants were bought with William our gardener at a very local and quite hidden nursery and at the Department of Plants and Gardens

I'm a member of the North American Womens' Association of Accra (NAWA) - the biggest and most social of the local ladies groups - and publisher of No Worries - http://www.noworriesghana.com/ - an excellent online and printed resource, and this weekend was their big bazaar, held just up the road at the New Horizon Special School

 

 Lots of stalls with lots of the usual souvenir stuff

the New Horizon School pupils played drums and danced very professionally

 A quick trip to a photography exhibition - some excellent images of Ghana

 this image was on the walls for sale, and the wall itself was also around the corner so I took a snap

 

Jamestown is a poor area but is very photogenic, we will be back!

 

For some reason this picture on a school wall rather tickled my fancy...and then a few days later we came back home to find this injured vulture in the compound.  Sometimes there is something we see which gives a jolt - despite our day to day life being very day to day, we are in an unusual situation!