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Monday, 17th December 2007

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The ‘ships graveyard’ near Cap Blanc reminded us very much of South Africa’s Skeleton Coast. Most of the wrecks were deliberate ‘insurance jobs’ we were told, but one particularly large and impressive recent addition was apparently a pure accident. As we walked around the slowly-rusting hulk on the beach, I could just imagine the colourful language that must have flowed as the ship’s owners realised their nice new vessel, grounded on a sandbank after a spot of engine trouble, was going nowhere.

Sadly, scour the beach as we might, we didn’t spot one of the world’s only remaining (100 or so) Monk seals; just a lone dolphin splashing in the surf. We did however see the world’s longest train, the 270 wagon long leviathan that transports iron ore 24/7 from the Mauritanian interior to the coast for export.

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Mike Fox

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