Yesterday
we began to prepare our lists and declaration forms etc. for the Customs
officers who come aboard tomorrow, so we really feel we are nearing our ocean
journeys end.
We are
quite out of sight of land and shall not
reach the coast for another 12 hours – even steaming at 12 miles (knots)
per hour, yet all afternoon and evening we have been keeping a very intent look
out on the waters for the least change of colour. The waters of the Congo are
so vast and enter the ocean with such haste that the current is carried out to
sea for nearly 200 miles. At 150 miles from its mouth, the Congo water can
easily be recognised by the change in colour of the ocean water from blue and
green to yellow: so that we can actually be in Congo waters whilst still in the
ocean and beyond sight of land.
During the
afternoon some brushwood from the Congo forest washed by the boat and later
some seeds: these may have come 100’s of miles for all we know – perhaps from
the very heart of Africa: a bit of the Congo coming out to meet us.
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