Boat Trip

It has been too long since I have posted. So in an effort to recall the last month I am going to start with the most recent and work backward.

Yesterday we took the embassy boat out to head up river for the day. So the embassy boat is an escape vessel for the embassy staff in an Emergency. Its about a 25ft open top boat with twin 225hp on the back, in short it HAULS A$$ especially when all the other boats are big wooden canoe looking things with trolling motors. We did a little fishing first, then went out and opened it up. Our friend Josh and I stayed on the Bow as we rocketed and skipped accross the four foot swells. About about 20 minutes of being airborn and slamming back down onto the hard fiberglass deck we threw in the towel and moved to the back. We made it to our destination, which was the site of the "Roots" story. Kutah Kinteh was from The Gambia, we visited the village of Juffreh and the adjacent Fort James Island. The Island was tiny, and its where they kept the captured slaves untill they could be loaded onto the boats, we actually found a dozen or so beads on the beach that were worn by the captured women hundreds of years ago.