…and of course sea sick!

What were we excited when we read that there were whales near the coast of Togo. Surely enough, we straight away checked with the tourism authority where and how we could best see them. The disappointing answer was: no, that’s been long long time ago, these days there are no whales coming close enough… Then again a spark of hope, when a friend told us about whales that were seen close to the beach. For one week, we went each day for some time walking on the beach, but didn’t manage to spot anything interesting in the sea. Time was running short and somehow this method didn’t seem to be sufficiently promising. Thus we started checking for boats and luckily found someone who takes regularly tourists out to the sea (the owner of the restaurant ‚Alt München’ right near the port). We arranged a date and off we went on our little adventure.

We were a little unlucky with the weather, as this was the only day of our three-week stay in Lomé which was rainy (even though the rain only lasted for 10 Minutes). The rain front though got us right wet on our little boat. Nevertheless, proud little Nico helped enthusiastically with catching some fish, while we all looked out for the main attraction, the whales. Well, I admit I spend most of the time hanging over the railing, but well that happens… and then finally the first whale fountains on the horizon (just beneath the rain front) and not long after, these cute little animals swam next to our boat. :-).