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Location Date Sudan
1669420800 Morocco 1647216000 Western Sahara 1646697600 Cote D'ivoire 1424908800 -
Location Date Khartoum 1669420800 Port Sudan
1669334400 Dongola 1668816000 Karima 1668816000
I have spent the last 4 days on a yacht sailing around isolated beaches and islands in the Red Sea. It started with the driver collecting us to only have one real leg (left), one wooden leg (right) and one of these old fashioned crutches that Long John Silver had. He seemed to drive ok so I didn't ask any questions. It was a bit of a faff getting in and out of the car at check points - open the door, get crutch from footwell, whack you with it trying to manoeuvre it out of the footwell, grab onto top of door, pull yourself up, reach for crutch which by this time had disappeared in the footwell again, balance yourself and off you go. We must have done this at least six times and each time I sat there waiting for him to fall in a heap under the car and his leg falling off.
Anyway, we got there safely although it's a bit hairy driving in the dark here as there are people, donkeys and camels on the road, other cars don't have lights and it's pitch black. Couldn't see where we were but with the light of a mobile, we got all our stuff onto a dingy and set sail into the dark to a yacht. Moored up onto it and leapt on. Unload the stuff - plop! - over goes something big and plastic (never did find out what it was), Captain forgot to tie the dingy so it started to float away and he had to jump about 5 feet back onto it.
So started days of going to bed at 6.30 because of the dark, being woken at 4 because either the toilet system was blocked or the Captain had decided to do some maintenance and having breakfast between 5 and 6. We spent the days eating amazing food, and I mean AMAZING, collecting clams from beaches to eat pasta vongole, drinking apperol with prosecco or gin and tonic and having bacon and eggs for breakfast because we are in international waters and rules don't apply.
We didn't see anyone else for 4 days. And the snorkelling! It was like being in an aquarium. So many fish and wierd shells of pyschodelic colours. We saw fish eagles nesting, manta rays all around our boat dancing underwater, massive sea slugs that were bright blue and little islands with huge conches on them.
This trip has been unbelievably amazing and you all must come to Sudan
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Jane How amazing Katie!
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