Today was a rest day. Phil researched and came up with the suggestion that we take a ferry over to Gorée Island which was the centre of the slave trade in the 17th and 18th Centuries and had an old castle and slave house and museum to look at.
We set off in a very rickety taxi to the port, rather further away than we thought to catch the ferry. ID was required to enter the port; passports had been left in the hotel but our PPL/IR crew cards with photograph sufficed, although the guard looked at them very strangely (another first for these useful cards).
Once on the ferry for the short 20 minute crossing, we were assailed by a number of tour guides advertising their services and buxom ladies inviting us to visit their shops on Gorée. In the end, we took on one guide who spoke reasonable English and had an interesting walk round the attractive island. Gorée was first discovered by the Portuguese, who were then ousted by the Dutch and shortly afterwards by the French. There were short periods when it came under Brit rule around the turn of the 18th/19th century. Gorée was where the slaves assembled having been brought from inland for transport over to the Americas.
Our guide pointed us to an excellent restaurant for lunch where we had very good gambettas (large prawns) overlooking the sea.
After a visit to another museum, we took the ferry back to Dakar where our taxi was waiting, and so back to the hotel for a swim and preparation for tomorrow. This will be a long day with two sectors to be flown.