Sailing with a small trimaran in a full moon night to Gambia. In Banjul we meet a very nice guy from the Navy and he helpt us with the formalities. At the be...

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it's midnight the wind calm down we are

for me around 12 knots wind beautiful

night full moon

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good morning 6 o'clock in the morning I

make coffee for my hero Danielle you do

a lot of the night shift I just do two

hours I'm still tired over there first

daylight and on the other side the moon

beautiful

it's very bright already we are just a

couple miles away from the entrance of

the river of Gambia we have the perfect

timing with the tides in about 3-4 hours

it will be high tide so we will enter

the river in a high tide with the

current from behind sunrise in a new

country we are in Gambia

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welcome to Gambia

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we managed to arrive here on a public

holiday it's the first of may day of the

workers we have to wait until tomorrow

to do the paper work

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good morning Daniel we are going to the

shore with the kayak without help from a

local it's almost impossible to clear in

into this country

we got the lucky choker and had help of

a man from the Gambian Navy what was

your name again

big yellow I walk in the Navy are you

from the Navy yeah

if sailors arrived you help them how to

do the customs and for

yeah I just didn't necessarily ask you

our stringers yeah I mean I want to be

just assistant so that will find it very

easy to be today

okay custom already in Gresham okay

check and this is a for free old we have

to pay you something no I'm not

requesting this for for any payment okay

yeah I'm just doing my own voluntary

service Wow yeah it is not that because

I'm expecting something from you oh

there's a payment for it no screaming

free okay yeah we are servicemen we are

rendering service to the public

yeah being a citizen being launched

within so long you are in The Gambia

your security your assistant if we can

do our level best whatever we can do for

you we do it

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it took us No

we went to the police to the customs

then they had to make some photocopies

of the papers

the organized SIM card for the

smartphone

first we need some money we are back on

board

it worked very well a nice guy from the

Navy helped us we have to pay $60 each

for the visa for stay one months in the

country right along now the paperwork

was done and we sailed to five miles to

the lawmen Lukesh

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we have to Harbormaster my name is jii

boy this is lemon lodge de cambiar i am

the master in lemon watch here like

doing lot of services for the boats

coming in know like the yards and like

most of the silsila providing water

arranging taxi for the laundries if they

want to clean their food so if they want

to keep their ports is a good place to

keep boots and also like for the sailors

comin in The Gambia like for the first

time is in West Africa is always

difficult like about the paperwork's

especially in binder so it's a big

problem for them to like do they are

people walks like in different places

what like is better like to have my

contacts or my address before coming to

tell me in advance so that I can easily

help for the people works and stuff like

that you know why should sailors come to

Gambia and Gambia is a beautiful country

it's a peaceful country in West Africa

and landlord is a good spot like for the

civil servant and I considered like and

always Africa like gamba is the best

part

to visit I think you know so far west

africa was a good spot to spot annoy is

a good spot to visit radicals Africa for

beginners for the beginners it's a good

sport

sure they were a very friendly and very

time the countries were safe you can

walk by your own everywhere you have no

problem whole day so the contracting is

one of the best place we've got a dis my

little coast of West Africa but is

smiling Gambia and you said in winter

you have quite a lot of sailors here

yeah in winter like we have almost like

25 to 25 votes coming you know what like

before you know the country like West

Africa like we have a lot of troubles

like about the molars and stuff like

that and people is scare about coming to

us Africa and stuff like that but now we

expecting like more service community

can be a the good thing is you can just

anchor you're in the creek

yeah you are free to drop your uncle

everywhere well you know you're tired

you're bored in the man group or if you

want to live anymore and it's possible

because some of the people like yeah

they keep their boots like for the whole

summer and it's a good place and a safe

place to camp or sooner

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it's a cool here looks very nice very

calm the only sound is from the musician

is drumming over there and the birds and

they have monkey and their monkeys here

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this is a small fishing harbour where

fishermen are going to cut shrimps and

women are going to collect oysters after

they talk to oysters out of the shells

they burnt the shells to produce white

paint out of it yeah the leftovers of

the oysters is a delicious meal for the

vultures the village called limine is a

circa minutes walk from the limine

launch it consists of a couple of houses

a medical centre schools mosques and the

main highway which is going to bundle

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there are phone keys and chicken in the

street fresh meat is hanging in front of

the battery there is a local bakery and

different workshops there are no

supermarkets you can buy the food on the

street or in small shops

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we are exploring the Gambia River and

its beautiful nature

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