My last post earlier this week detailed my return to Escape3Points Eco-lodge and a tour around the far, and permaculture projects. That same day earlier in the day we took a hike to see one of promenent sites in the area, the 100 year old light house at the tip of Cape Three Points in Western Ghana.
Festus my UK/Ghanaian business partner and his niece Yaba joined us on the walk. About half of the walk was down the beach. The sand is very soft and fine and when wet it made for our steps to sink in quite deep. This make the walking a little more strenuous and we needed to take a few breaks for the pregnant one.
But everyone was in good spirits and lots of picture needed to be taken.
Like I have said before this is one of my favorite beaches I have been to world wide. I love how the trees overhand the beach.
At high tide the water line meets the tree line.
Looking back the way we came.
At the end of the beach is the first point and natural rock break water. This is a world class surfing point I have done the long paddle out to a few times but the swell was pretty big this time. The end of the beach is where the jungle starts.
The trail makes its way into a tunnel in the foliage.
And she went into the forest and then was gone, never to be seen again. End of story.....
Just kidding I had to jump ahead and take the lead because I was the only one that had done this hike before and trail makes its way through a marshy mangrove swamp. There a number of branches in the path and in no time I got use lost but not for long. We had to carefully find footing to get across one flooded out area where some ducks were hanging out.
We eventually exited the jungle into a village. Festus stopped to take a pee and emerged from the forest being chased by a black goat which he must of wronged in one of his prior goat lives.
After joining the road in the village again we started walking up the hill to the end of the point. We eventually make it to the foot of the light house.
The goats are regrouping the news of the stand off between Festus and the other black goat has traveled quickly among the goats.
There is also a sign board at the foot of the lighthouse and it points to many cities throughout the world.
We got some snaps of Dzigbordi on the sign board.
We walked out on the point to get some nice views and get the closest to the center of the earth as possible. This place is the closest land mass to where the Prime Meridian and the Equator making it 0', 0' but here is close to 4.7, -2.
The view to the West of the Cape.
Time for a few selfies.
Festus took some time to commune with the ancestors and see about where he could have wronged these goats.
We managed to climb to the top of the light house for 10ghs each, that is about $1 now. This is the view to the east of the lighthouse.
View to the west of the lighthouse.
Dzigbordi and heights have never been good friends. It was a push to even get her to climb the stairs in the inside but she could really not hang up here for long. I will be putting together a video of this whole day and posting on Youtube and Dtube. There is a funny clip where she walks into the lighthouse and turns around and says nope, I'm out when seeing the stairs.
After that it was time for our hike back down and down the beach to a nice lunch.
This time it was high tide and the sand was very soft and I took the lead to break the train the rest of them followed in my footsteps.
All photos were taken with my Google Pixel 3xl.
