Not WWOOFers anymore we set out to discover more of this island, well at least the part accessible by bike.
First hike was along a main river and through mangrove to an old abandoned coal mine “village”.
It was to be one of those rainy days, but we kept going and were amazed by mangroves and how forest has overgrown on the ruins of that coal mine village, see for yourself:
Back to main track, we soon reached the coal mine village, or what’s rest of it! Hard to distinguish from all the vegetation:
That mine was in operation from 1936 to 1943, with around ~400 miners. Surprisingly conditions were said to be fairly good, with large bathrooms, a theatre, doctor and school… but it all ended after second world war, Americans raided the place and it was probably not economically viable to start again…
Back to our lodge…
That evening we got to prepare and eat the shrimps we had caught the first night Yann arrived…
