Beached And Bluff

This was such a depressing winter day, and the weather was adding to it.  There was a constant drizzle.  Walking down the beach, some of the photos are to the left (beached ships) and others are to the right (beached ships and the bluffs farther back).  One ship was so totally beached the hull was almost rusted gone and all that was left was a container for sand.  The houses in the background are a German tourism project that was never finished.

Be Tired

One tire on the shore repeatedly covered and uncovered as it gets buried by the sand.

Sea And Shore

Alternating views of the sea and the shore, reinforcing each other's depressing status.

Tiny Crabs And Trash

Teeny tiny crabs scuttled up and down the beach, hard to see because of their near-translucent camouflage.  The trash - it's Angola.  Trash is everywhere.

Cloudy Day

The day at Shipwreck Beach was made more depressing by the weather.  It was cloudy and clammy and added to the sense of neglect.  Kelly, my friend, posed for a photo.  It shows how close the ships actually are to the shore.

Beached

More derelicts just rotting away.  It's a kind of nihilist art.

On The Beach

Last year we visited Shipwreck Beach on the water.  This time we went by car and came to this place.  It's so very depressing to see all these hulks just rusting and being covered by sand.  At one point this was a tourist place because of it, but even that's gone.  Now it's just a very sad place.

Not The Angolan Flag

The MPLA is doing its best to blanked Angola with flags.  This was taken on my street on a strangely low parked car day.  The city is covered in ugly flags.  And they're not even the national ones, but the party ones.  MPLA is going to win, by fair means or foul, and no one seems to care.

Another Basket

My nice round basket got destroyed in an onion storage disaster because Angola.  Andreas insisted I get a replacement.  They didn't have any round ones, so I got another rectangular one.

Cafe Del Mar

A couple of Friday nights ago we went to Cafe Del Mar, a restaurant on the Ilha in Luanda.  Not only are they a restaurant, they will serve you at a beach chair during the day so you can watch the waves on the beach. The water, unfortunately, is not good enough to swim in.  The service was impeccable and the food was pretty good.  Andreas had a pasta dish, and I had picanha.  As usual, Angolans cut and cook it waaay too thin.  The fried banana was tasty and my caprianha was very good.  Overall it was a pleasant evening by the ocean waves.