Sierra Leone to Guinea

I left Freetown and stopped en route to see one of the original settlements established by freed slaves at York. A centenary monument in the village.

A couldn't resist a look at the cemetery although it had been overgrown and subject to a recent bush fire.

But the beaches all along the coast are fine white sand and the Bounty adverts were filmed just up the coast.

 One of the more up market restaurants on the beach which served fish and I had barracuda which is a wonderful meaty fish and I will be looking out for it again.

There are road hazards. We had crossed this bridge a few days before but now there the wrecks of two lorries. One had come around the bend on the slope down to the bridge and hadn't braked in time and run another lorry off the edge of the bridge and there was debris on the bank and in the river.

 Ans several of the vehicles were overloaded and subject to toppling over on steep cambers.

Over hazards were weak bridges and culverts which gave way under heavy vehicles. We managed to get out of this hole with just a bit of shaking rather than getting stuck. We were heading NE out of Sierra Leone back to Guinea.

 But the roads are being improved even if the temporary road is still a dirt track. A partially completed covert.

Some of the tracks were just tracks through the jungle.

 But in places they too were steep and bumpy ruts.