Lake Bosumtwi – Chillin’ at the lake July 12, 13 and 14 with Jeremy, Justin and Lauren
CRATER LAKE VILLAGES
Bosumtwi is home to about 70,000 people living in twenty-some villages surrounding the lake. The crater lake was created by meteor impact more than one million years ago.
LAKE POINT GUEST HOUSE
Bob and I stayed in the cottage on the left and our housemates bunked in the dorm.
IT’S WORKING
We came here to relax and it appears to be working.
GOOD SWIMMING
Crocodile and bilharzia free water we felt good about getting wet in. And muddy…
NOW…
That’s what we’re talking about. A couple of days of rest and relaxation. swimming, eating, drinking, birding.
AND RIDING!
Abena at The Green Ranch took through several villages and served us a delicious vegan lunch. More photos at: The Green Ranch
LAKESIDE
Beautiful Lake Bosumtwi was all ours because we had the foresight to book our stay before the weekend.
EDIBLES
We were very excited to see a breadfruit tree on the property at Lake Point. In case you’ve forgotten, breadfruit is one of our most very favorite foods. It does not transport at all and grows only in the tropics. Originating in Polynesia and the main reason behind the Mutiny on the Bounty, breadfruit was only recently introduced to Africa. Here’s a link to a recent story about the exciting African Breadfruit Revolution.
In general food was growing pretty much everywhere in a eclectic mish mash. Here is a photo of corn, bananas, coco yam and cassava.
CHOCOLATE GROWS ON TREES
Ripening cocoa pods, an indication of Ghana’s second largest export.with gold in the number one spot and timber in third. Lake Bosumtwi was surrounded by cocoa trees, while on horseback we rode past a man drying the pods in the sun and our hosts at Lake Point served us hot cocoa in the morning.
The majority of the world’s cocoa comes from West Africa and Ghana is a huge producer, responsible for roughly 21% of the 3 million tons of cocoa produced worldwide of which the United States imports roughly 32%.
Most of Ghana’s cocoa is exported but some is made into chocolate here. Unfortunately, if it melts in your mouth, it will also melt on the shelf so the local chocolate doesn’t taste as nice to our northern palettes as the creamier versions.Camille awaits her cup of goodness and after a few days of this went home to replace her tea habit with a cocoa crush.
FEEDING TIME
Lauren and Justin wait for meals which is what we did when we weren’t swimming, napping or riding.
AFTER DARK
Camille, Bob, Jeremy, Lauren and Justin relax with Spot and beverages prior to dinner the first night.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Yes, we brought our little plastic friend with us and he repaid us by trying to crawl up Justin’s nose!
Our host Stephen played along as did housemate Lauren. At the end of the day, Spot had a fabulous time at Lake Bosumtwi.
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