Today has been a very pleasant day of relaxation at the Bom Bom Hotel beach resort on Principe; a hazy sunny day with a few cumulus clouds.
After breakfast we were taken on a guided jungle walk of around 3 miles. We saw banana and coconut trees and hermit crabs living in holes at the bottom of trees – some quite big. We saw an old Portuguese church with big trees growing up through it which reminded me of Ta Prom temple at Angkor Watt. We saw some pretty kingfisher type birds but not as many as we had anticipated. Phil managed a few photographs of these with his telephoto lens but there is no way of transferring them onto the blog at present.
After lunch, we swam and snorkelled; there were a wide variety of fish to be seen including some very pretty rainbow coloured ones.
Now it is time for flight planning the next two legs into Angola and Namibia. Phil has just told me that we need to leave Luanda at 0730 local time on Friday morning to reach Walvis Bay airfield before it shuts in the afternoon so another very early get up in prospect!
