The Nova Scotia Sierra Leone Program (NSSLP) office where we stayed in Freetown
Mousa, the Nova Scotia Sierra Leone Project Driver who brought us to Freetown
lizard in the yard in Freetown - I noticed way more lizards around Freetown than I see in Mapaki.
View from the balcony of our guesthouse (the NSSLP office, just off Congo Cross)
View from the balcony of our guesthouse
Downtown Freetown - View from the balcony of our guesthouse
The football stadium is in the bottom of this photo. The tall building at the top of the hill on the left is on the campus of Fourah Bay College.
View from the balcony of our guesthouse - misty morning
Portugese Steps - where newly liberated slaves first set foot on free soil.
Bats in Victoria Park - there were zillions of them!
Little crocodiles at Fourah Bay College
Sitting on the remenants of an old fort - this was a spot for a cannon. Looks remarkably like some of the old forts in Nova Scotia.
Freetown view from Mount Aureol (where Fourah Bay College is located)
Freetown view from Mount Aureol
Freetown view from Hill Station (just up the road from the guesthouse)
Freetown view from Hill Station
Freetown view from Hill Station - still a bit misty
Freetown view from Hill Station - kids playing soccer I think
Freetown stadium
Henry, NSSLP's daytime security guard and Nova Scotia (the dog)
sunset over Freetown
Top of the mosque near the guesthouse (fishing boat on the ocean in the background)
These boats were loading at the Kissy ferry terminal and are an alternative mode of crossing over to Lungi. Quicker, but potentially more dangerous, and quite a bit more expensive.
Slums along the water at low tide, just beside Kissy ferry terminal
There are a number of old wrecked ships in the harbour where the ferry from Freetown to Lungi departs. They are apparently being slowly taken apart by men who swim out to the wrecks, hammer off bits of the metal and swim them back to shore to sell for scrap.
One of the guys taking bits of this old wrecked ship apart
wrecked boat
Another wreck (encouraging, aren't they?)
The hills of Freetown from the ferry
