Our First Cape Coast adventure, episode 2 - Our first beach stay

May 13, 2021 

(From episode 1, We had left Otuam. "We drove on.  This time on the road that is used most often to achieve Otuam from N1.")

N1 is a good two-lane highway.  We continued west and eventually drove past Cape Coast and Elmina to get to the Charlestina Beach Resort for our only night on the beach.  It was an oasis among the small shops, huts, deep gutters, goats, and dirt that we drove through to get there.  That describes most small towns.  The place is a complex of an office, six duplex units with a common area of a restaurant, playground, the makings of a future pool, lounge chairs, umbrellas, sand, then the Atlantic Ocean. 





We shared a duplex with the Kittelson’s.  We had 6A and they 6B.  We took a short walk around the grounds. The beach is nice.  Small.  Fishing boats off to the right at the small point of land. The fishermen had come in for the day and were putting nets away.






Dinner was ordered before we did anything else, then got into the rooms.  We had been warned it takes a long time to cook dinner.  It did take a long time to cook our dinner.  After our things were put away in the rooms, we went to the Restaurant.  While dinner was being prepared, nothing we could do but sit in the open-air restaurant and enjoy the breeze, take pictures, and shoot the breeze.  




There is a boat waaaay out in the distance.


Dinner finally showed up, one plate at a time.  Elaine and I ordered potatoes with our entries.  She wanted mashed potatoes and me, scalloped.  We both ended up with a “loaf of mashed potatoes” that took up a large portion of the plate.  Like half the plate.  


Part of the Africa experience.  A clash of expectations and reality.  Other guests in the restaurant we found out were from Jordan.  Dinner was an event.  I had a fish, the whole thing, staring at me as I ate away.

It was a good day.  From Accra to Otuam then to Charlestina Beach Resort.  We were safe, arrived sound, enjoyed the company immensely, and the scenery was pure Africa.  

To be continued.

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