16 May

Its always sad to leave at the end of a holiday but after 3 days it felt as if we had only just got there.

We headed off at 6am for Banjul to catch the ferry to Barra, luckily a Gambian friend that lives in Banjul kindly offered to get there early and get the tickets for us. He got there at 5 which was a good job as the queue of cars alone was well over 200 metres long and the ferry only takes about 12 vehicles at a time!

We skipped straight to the front and were soon on our way. Of the first 80 miles about 30 was on tracks, it was much easier this time as we had previously done this part in the dark.

We saw quite a few monkeys running across the road today which we hadn't seen on the way down, but they were much too fast for me to get the camera out

The clutch is slipping a lot on the BMW but otherwise the bikes are running well after the 3 day rest

All the police were busy with other vehicles at the checkpoint going into St Louis so no fines this time

We are staying at the same hotel as before in St Louis in Senegal, as it isn't the nicest of towns and they let us park inside the hotel

Miles covered: 311