Blog 2. TribeWanted

I could get used to this, waking up every morning, climbing out of your tent and you are on the beach (and I’m not talking about South Shields), I mean a real beach, one of the most beautiful settings I have ever seen.

TribeWanted is an incredible place; the people there are so friendly and will help you with anything. The food was delicious, fresh fruit, fresh fish, plantain and salad (though some of the African dishes are quite spicy for me).

Amongst our adventures on John Obey beach we met all the locals from the village, played Spin Ball and canoed across the Crocodile Lagoon (seriously told there were crocodiles in there) walked along the beach and played on the strapline with MoMo and what seemed like a million of his friends.

The climb up ‘Picket Point’ was canny gruelling yet good fun. It was a 6-hour walk up and down the highest point on the peninsular, through the jungle where Jemma saw a snake (5 foot long and dark blue) and on to boiling hot rock at top where we enjoyed our lunch (apart from Greg who was a bit worse for wear). The heat made it such a tough challenge and even though our guide CoCo kept saying “just one minute away”, it always took us another hour to get to the next point.

We actually did some work at TribeWanted, preparing for the projects we were each getting involved in, but in such a spectacular classroom, this wasn’t so bad. Plus we learnt a bit of Krio, the language mainly used over here, so Tenki (thank you) for reading this blog.

At TribeWanted we met some fascinating characters, from Big Momma (Latino American woman who is mother to Rosario Dawson the film star) to the Australian couple Ray and Avril who looked after us and shared a bit of Ozzy banter.

P.S on my birthday I was lying in a hammock on the beach with a STAR beer, reading FourFourTwo football magazine and surrounded by great company, not bad eh?