Sightseeing Georgetown

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Ben took me to immigration this morning, to get my exit stamp out of the country. There won’t be much of another large city I will be passing on my way along the coast, so this bureaucracy job is already done quickly with the help of a friendly lady from the tourism authority joining me. Without her presence and previous call, I may have been waiting for hours with about fifty other people to get my stamp…thanks for that quick “VIP” service!

Mr. Haralsingh from the Guyana tourism authority had three ladies from Colombia visiting on a mission to make connections between those two countries for tourism purposes. He invited me to join the city tour in a mini bus, with local a driver and guide showing us the beauty of Georgetown’s popular buildings and places.

The first spot was the infamous sea wall, which keeps Guyana, a few feet under sea level, dry from the raging sea on high tide. I could take a shot from a different perspective, as I am only used to see this concrete monster from the water side. It was blowing easily 15 knots, the brown sea was on almost high tide, and breakers were rolling first on the wide flat basement of the wall, then curling high up the hollow wall itself and just about not splashing over it’s crown. They had to rise the top of the wall just recently after a Tsunami shifted somehow the whole land even a few cm lower, they told me.

Then I noticed a very bad mistake on this trip chance of a life time – after I took the sea wall shots, my camera battery ran out of power, and I was so stupid not to take a few more from my hotel room … well, if you like to google the buildings of Georgetown, well worth seeing, fortunately everything is readily available online these days, though I’d have been happy to take my own shots of the beautiful mighty wooden white St. George’s Cathedral, traditional Umana Yana house, the Parliament Building, Red House and State house, City Hall, High Court, Conference Center, Church of The Sacred Heart and many more fancy buildings and places we were visiting briefly. Very sorry for the lost opportunity!

I am already looking ahead and am in heavy e-mail contact about my approach to Suriname. There, also the German Honorary Consul, Cees Dilweg, anotherDutch national, will be assisting me probably as nicely as Ben does here! Great guys, and many, many thanks!

Unfortunately I am sniffling heavily and feeling slightly sick with the climate change and air condition blowing in my face, but I am sure this will go as soon as I am hitting salty water!

The forecast shows headwind as usual all days, between 10 and 15 knots, what I felt so far was true 15 knots if not more. The tide is now not in my favour, so days have to be rather short to land at least in reasonable water level. Once approaching Paramaribo, it will be a perfect high tide in the morning and late afternoon.

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Randall Lackey

Keeping up with batteries sucks. Ive more than one time found myself in the same situation.Hate to read the winds are continuing strong.Hope you get acclamated soon and over the sniffles. Sure the ocean will fix all that. Safe paddling.

Karen

Thank you for the Guyana concrete wall photograph. Look forward to more to come.
Sounds like a wonderful site seeing day.

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