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Exhausted after our long two days trekking across Nigeria we spent some wonderful days around our Protea hotel Oakwood park on the Lekki expressway. Mr Bekker, Mischa, Andries and Marlise treated us amazingly, like long lost family, and we even managed to squeeze in a braai around the pool for Mischa’s birthday. Man what a [...]

If one thing was ever going to kill you in Nigeria, believe me it’s not the kidnappers or the possible outbreak of religiousfaction fighting. No sir, infact what we have come to believe is the main source of death in Nigeria is infact the driving. I’m pretty convinced that Nigerians get up in the morning [...]

What did we expect when we crossed the border from Cameroon into Nigeria? For some time now we had been toying with this question, and had been asked it by many of our friends, family and fellow travelers. What did we expect it was going to be like, feel like and most importantly how safe [...]

Leaving Gabon
Libreville is one colorful city to be in. You can easily travel around it by taxis, and it has wonderful sights and sounds coming at you from every direction. We were so grateful to the nuns for letting us keep our car safe and sound in their nunnery, while we zipped around Libreville getting [...]

Linda and I have reached Lagos, Nigeria after some gruling driving and mad roads. We are currently in the Oakwoodpark Protea Hotel, one of our fantastic sponsors, enjoying some aircon and salad. We will have all our latest info updated on Monday as the internet is down until then. I will be updating Cameroon, Nigeria and [...]

Poor Andrea, the turtle necropsy vet, had yet to see his first leatherback turtle….alive that is. In an effort to alleviate this problem we decided to head down to Bame camp for three days and try and find ourselves a leatherback, both for our sake and Andreas. Unfortunately, as with Sarah, we walked the beaches [...]

Rain, thunderstorms and no fish categorized a typical Mayumba day for us. Thunderstorms would rattle on most mornings and afternoons and the sound of the rain on the tin roof was defining.  The sky was alive with cloud forms and the sunsets were magical. It is funny ,Mayumba engrained something into Linda and I last [...]