Weija Lake

This Saturday we went out again: we visited a lake called Weija Lake. We wanted to leave early to avoid the traffic since the road to Weija Lake is also the road leading to Cape Coast and it`s very busy almost all the time. Well, we still got to wait in a traffic jam for a while, but it wasn`t too bad. Already on the way I could see that we were leaving the city: there were more and more bushes around, and you could also see sheep and goats passing the road. Anyway, Weija Lake is a fishing lake, where they also purify water and it seemed pretty much a restricted area. We met a guy before, who would take us around, because you are not really supposed to go in alone. Also, after entering we were told at least three times that you are not supposed to take pictures in the whole area – it turned out that the reason for that is, that before some people have already used pictures against them. The lake looks beautiful anyway, it`s really huge with some small hills surrounding it. Though it turned out that most of the fishermen don`t work on Saturday, we still found one who would take us on the lake in a canoe – of course in turn of some money. It was a great experience to sit in the canoe that was sometimes bending from one side to another with the waves, while the fisherman also told us a bit about their fishing methods: for example fishing with a net or a hook. Altogether it was really a beautiful area with a kind fisherman, while at the same time I could also `feel` the strict rules surrounding all of it – it was kind of similar feeling as having seen the soldiers by the Independence Square in central Accra before.