Well, we have spent so much time on this trip beside a river, beside a port, beside the ocean, this time we decide we're getting on the water - the Nile! On that classic boat that you see in so many paintings - one of which hung in Marc's family home for his entire childhood - the felucca! Traditional wooden sailing boats, they have plied the Nile for centuries, design unchanged. Here's our Captain, First Mate, our driver and Ali, our host and guide, bringing the felucca alongside for us to embark. I feel kinda like royalty!
Zachariah, our laughing Captain, his first mate and us, posing, with many more feluccas behind us catching the pre-sunset breeze.
So much beauty to see further downriver, the land still being worked by hand, quietly floating along, dipping our hands in the Nile, to ensure our return one day.
A banana plantation being build by hand. Ali tells us that a community will get together and work the land for all, bringing whatever resources they have to create a new planting for all.
As dusk descends, the wind dies, and we anchor near some flats to watch for wildlife. So many birds, so quiet, and on our return, our crew unhinged flat square oars from the mast, and row us back upriver for the journey home. A beautiful evening! We sang, we clapped, we laughed!
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