Beach Montage

Since I am really jealous of all you and your snowy surroundings, I decided to make a sweet photo montage and melange all of my beach photos from the past couple of weeks. I don't have all of the pictures we took so I'll just put some more up later.

Locations: Ngor, Dakar; Langue de Barbarie, Saint-Louis; Frontier Beach, Saint-Louis

Notable Things that Happened:

• After a half-hour ride into what seemed like the middle of no man's land we ended up at a beach in Langue de Barbarie. ( The Langue de Barbarie is a thin sandy peninsula adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean located in the neighborhood of the city of Saint-Louis. The peninsula separates the ocean from the final section of the Senegal River. ) Some crazy lady tried to charge us 30,000cfa for a pirogue ride across the Senegalese river because she saw we were white. The real price should have been 2,400 cfa so her price was 12.5 times that. We said we'll swim across for free. She looked at us like we were crazy. And then Joleen, Andrew, and I swam across the Senegalese river. Suck it! FO FREE.
• Alsoooo on the way back, we had to find transportation for 8 people in the middle of nowhere. Luckily two taxis drove by and we flagged them down. Modou, Andrew and I had the chance of being in our own taxi. Joleen, Kate, and the rest of the crew got jammed (and I mean literally jammed) into a taxi meant for four. In all, that rust bucket of a car carted 8 people AND a motorcycle in its shamble-y taxi frame. Parts were literally falling off of this "taxi." Transportation in this country is a whole other post that I'll save for later.
  
• At Frontier beach Joleen and our friends Modou and Stevens walked the 7km down the beach and walked to Mauritania. They took a while in returning so I was a little worried they got kidnapped and eaten by cannibals. Kidding. But not really. Seriously, though, I'm kidding.

Ngor:

Looking out across towards Ngor Island.

Looking very fierce, like a tiger.

Langue de Barbarie:

Weird Tubaab hang out that looked like the treehouse from Swiss Family Robinson

André looking classy beachside, cigarette and Steppenwolf in hand.

Kids from the neighboring village hanging out on a dock

They kept inching closer to us and then swarmed Andrew when he started handing out ginger candy

Weird footbridge that looked quite ominous. It took us through the woods and back out to the main road where we hailed our taxis.

Frontier Beach:

Trees doting the beach.

Joleen and Masse running towards the beach.

Pick-up soccer match. Everyone plays soccer. Everyone.

Sama xarit bu goor (My guy friend) and bestest Senegalese friend, Modou Fall

We all look photoshopped.

Bffs.

Sunset over the Atlantic Ocean. Breathtaking.