{"id":397,"date":"2012-06-25T10:04:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T10:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/?p=397"},"modified":"2014-03-29T17:51:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T17:51:24","slug":"first-night-in-ada-foah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"First Night in Ada Foah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like many Ghanain place names, there are a few\u00c2\u00a0 “Ada”s.\u00c2\u00a0 all of which are in the vicintiy of the mouth of the Vota River.\u00c2\u00a0 Kasseh Ada, Big Ada etc.\u00c2\u00a0 Ada Foah is a town at the mouth of the Volta River where the river is widest.\u00c2\u00a0 That is where the Accra Sailing Club is located on the river so the small dinghy and Hobie Cat boats jot about among the islands in the estuary and never have to deal with the actual oceon.\u00c2\u00a0 We have been members for 3 years decided to make this the first night destination.<\/p>\n

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Sailing Club on a busy Sunday morning<\/p><\/div>\n

It only takes about an hour and thirty minutes to drive here from Accra, down one of the best, straightest, fastest roads in the country.\u00c2\u00a0 It took us longer this time because of the torrential downpour that we encountered and which caused flash flooding along much of the route.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Did not have the presence of mind to take photos of\u00c2\u00a0 the cars crawling through vast puddles at 20 km\/hr.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 In our larger vehicle we did not feel too vulnerable although we did discover that despite all the new door seals all round our Defender does leak a bit.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 By the time we arrived at the Club about 4:00PM the sun had come\u00c2\u00a0 out, indeed it does not appear to have rained here at all today.<\/p>\n

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Set up at the sailing club on a quiet Sunday evening<\/p><\/div>\n

We had the place all to ourselves on a Sunday night, we barbecued a steak and eggplant in the petrol barrel barbecue where we have cooked so many Sunday lunches.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately we can’t take our boat out because we are waiting for a part from Hartley Chandlery in England which is distinguishing itselve for its slow delivery and lack of service. But our minds are not really on sailing anyway,\u00c2\u00a0 we want to get moving on to Togo.<\/p>\n

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Like many Ghanain place names, there are a few\u00c2\u00a0 “Ada”s.\u00c2\u00a0 all of which are in the vicintiy of the mouth of the Vota River.\u00c2\u00a0 Kasseh Ada, Big Ada etc.\u00c2\u00a0 Ada Foah is a town at the mouth of the Volta River where the river is widest.\u00c2\u00a0 That is where the Accra Sailing Club is located […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16,25,13,24,14,15,22,21,23],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-west-african-wander-taking-it-on-the-road","tag-4x4","tag-africa","tag-defender","tag-expedition","tag-land-rover","tag-overland","tag-overlanding","tag-west-africa","tag-wheatcroft","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.overlandrover-westafrica.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}