Welcome to our neighborhood!!

It has been interesting living on a ship in an active African port . . . we see lots of different ships come and go on a regular basis . . . so this blog post is some snapshots of some of those ships!

 

This is a container ship that docks at one of the two container berths in the port.

This is a close up of the name of the container ship pictured above . . . we include it because it is also the name of one of our friends back in Minnesota (no photoshop involved!)

 

This ship is docked across from us.  It comes and goes back and forth to China with loads of logs from the forests . . . as you drive by the log yard, it is common to see logs that are 5 feet across!

 

 

This is the harbor's newest tugboat.  It doesn't look that big until you compare it to the car parked next to it!

 

This show the general cargo berths behind our ship.  The ship next to tug is a fish processor that is here to unload tons of processed, frozen fish.

 

This is some of the Pointe Noire fishing fleet.

 

 

This French navy Amphibious Assault ship came in today.  When I read up on it, they often do humanitarian missions and given the collapse of the government in the Central African Republic, it is not surprising they are here!  Additionally, the French navy has a strong presence in the ocean outside of this area combating piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.

 

 

And finally, I did say AFRICAN port!!  This boat load of cattle docked next to us yesterday morning and unloaded their herd.  The herd was led through the port and was last seen grazing in a field near the port gate!!!

 

 

Hope you had a great Christmas and a refreshing holiday break!