On the 5th day I had a relaxing morning with breakfast and just a small walk with my girlfriend, Johanne, down to Kotu Bridge to make an appointment with our guide Alieu. Here we bumped into my brother-in-law, Mads, who had just returned from his morning run.
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Mads was training for an ironman and therefore had to stick to his programme - even on vacation... |
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...and due to the lack of proper training facilities he had to be quite inventive.... |
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My father enjoying life in Bakotu Hotel with cigarettes, cola, nice weather and loads of birds. Here Mads is seen reading in a book on training for an ironman... |
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View from Bakotu Hotel towards Fajara Golf Course and the mangroves of Kotu Stream. My sister, Sine her boyfriend, Mads, and my father are seen on the picture. |
After having releaxed in the morning all of us walked northwards along the beach and had a nice lunch in a hotel run by a danish couple.
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Lecturing my father about the joys and challenges of identifying sub-saharan cisticolas while having ckicken yassa. |
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Pied Crow, Kotu Beach, 10/11-2011. |
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Yellow-billed Kite ssp. parasiticus, Kotu Beach, 10/11-2011. |
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Mads, Johanne and Sine (my sister) watching a Hooded Vulture having a feast on the beach. |
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Hooded Vulture, close-up, Kotu Beach, 10/11-2011. |
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Variable Sunbird, male, Kotu Beach, 10/11-2011. |
In the afternoon my father and I went for some birding in the Kotu area with Alieu. At first we went to the Sewage Ponds where we saw two nice Black Crakes. After that we went to a place to look for Painted Snipes but failed to see any but instead had another Black Crake and an obliging African Pygmy Kingfisher in the fading light.
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Alieu and my father at Kotu Sewage Ponds. |
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Black Crake, Kotu Sewage Ponds, 10/11-2011. |
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African Jacanas (two adults and one 1cy) with a Black-necked Stilt, Kotu Sewage Ponds, 10/11-2011. |
In the evening we had dinner on the beach where the fishermen/beach bums had prepared the fish that Mads had caugth the day before.
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A gambian party without drums would be like having a shrimp-cocktail without shrimps. |
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It tasted better than it looks. Actually the fish was some of the best I've ever had but the athmosphere might also have contributed to this.... |
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Danes eating gambian cuisine with their fingers. From left to right: My father, sister, brother-in-law, girlfriend, myself and my mother. |
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