Ghana Gazette

Several weeks ago, a boat overturned on the lake above the Volta Dam about 100 miles from Tema. Originally the report was that 100 people had died - then 70, then 20 finally they admitted they didn't really know as the boat was overloaded, capsized and many had swum ashore and disappeared because they were moving them off government land to another location. Well, we were very excited to take a ride on the River just below the dam as part of our training. Just love little boats and lots of water!

Here is our boat - will hold about twenty people - will float (actually its got a motor) for an hour on the river (we hope).

This is the follage along the one side of the river - love the big tall trees and the greenery that is part of this area of Ghana.

This is the other boat that had the other half of our group on - if you'll notice the dark clouds in the background - this was a storm moving in and before we got back to the docking area we were being buffeted with strong winds and a fairly heavy rain storm - oh how very exciting for me!!!!!

The other side of the river backed onto a town and many of the homes were right down by the river. Various activities such as washing clothes, washing selves, fishing net repairs - fishing boats, etc were visible - this picture is somewhat blurred, but gives a little idea.

These fellows were out in their boat -had been setting up fish nets and doing some fishing, but the impending storm was driving them back to their homes - you can perhaps see the tree branches waving and the water churning up a little. Several of them had one person paddling and one person bailing out water - I guess they are not all entirely waterproof. We arrived back at the dock safely and enjoyed a very wonderful lunch before continuing our somewhat "restful" trip back to Accra - we will write more later on our other visits of this day - it was a very welcome change from our routine.

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