I spent the entire at the beach in Yoff. This is a very long beach lined with little "cas" or cabanas for rent. The beach break here is supposed to just get better as the sand bar builds, and the water is nice and will get even warmer
In the morning the wind was offshore and I had fun surfing. This is a good place to learn to surf (Louise, Liz Carolyn we can rent boards for you if you like!)As the day progressed more and more people came to the beach. Loads of guys come to play football//soccer. By 6pm there were thousands of people on the beach.
Footballers, runners, people doing push ups, wrestling matches, galloping horses (crazy), people bathing horses, guys doing handsprings and back flips on the sand, dogs, kids, a mass evangelical baptism, drum circles, people making thé a la menthe//mint tea over little charcoal stoves, boom boxes, drum circles. Walking down the beach its impossible for your feet not to make contact with a football.
Most of the people here do not know how to swim, and the currents can be strong, so people wade into the ocean in groups.
The atmosphere here is great. People are friendly in a way that is unknown in the states. And its not just the tourist-local interaction. Here, people greet eachother all the time, strangers chat, and when you meet someone they always ask, usually more than once 'ça va'//how are you? Or in Wolof, 'nen ge def?' and the response 'man gi fii'
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