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Mount Cameroon 2005 album

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Copyright © 2003 Kevin O'Rourke

The site is a work in progress, the 'Album' page in each section contains some photos but only some sections have much text.

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Etinde (small Mount Cameroon) in the mist, from the ferry

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"Rooms" at Park Hotel Miramare, each hut has two rooms

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View of Ambas Bay and islands from the hotel poolside

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Island in Ambas Bay

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Looking towards the harbour

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Islands in Ambas Bay, with fishing boat

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Boats and islands

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Mile 8 beach, Charles and I went on a beach scouting expedition in preparation for Christmas

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Charles walking along mile 8 beach

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Mile 11 beach, Christmas Day

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Part of the group at Mile 11 beach

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Jonathan, Indar and me at mile 11 beach

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Charles and Amy at mile 11 beach

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Looking along mile 11 beach

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Women fording stream at mile 11 beach

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Stream at mile 11 beach

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Stream at mile 11 beach

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Mount Cameroon from the back road to Buea

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Mount Cameroon through the early morning mist

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Start of the Mount Cameroon trek

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Amy and Pete setting off up Mount Cameroon

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Matheus with Peter in forest

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Chantal and Karin with porters

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Path through the forest

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Shrew-like animal on the path, it was running in circles and falling over a lot

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Lunch at hut 1, we brough pizza from the bakery in Limbe

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Forest in the clouds

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The start of the savannah, the black areas are due to bushfires started by hunters

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Forest edge (in the clouds)

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Burnt savannah and Mid Hut

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Burnt savannah and clouds

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Karin, Chantal, Indar and Pete

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Otto and Indar at the lava tunnel

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Jonathan cooks dinner at end of day 1

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Mediterranean-looking landscape, day 2

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Charles silhouetted

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Amy, Indar, Junior Samuel and Jonathan take a break

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Looking back down to hut 2

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Looking back down to hut 2

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Clouds drifting up the mountain

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Steaming vents from the 2000 eruption

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The summit from below

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Porter and summit

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Chantal, Amy, Charles and Jonathan on summit, Peace Corps people in the background

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Me on the summit, it was very windy and freezing cold

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Looking back down the path we walked up

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Charles, Jenny, Indar, Karin, Pete, Amy, Chantal and Jonathan on the summit

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Trudging down lava flows, this was very difficult and uncomfortable terrain for walking

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View back up to the summit

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Looking back to the summit

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Station F hut and helipad

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Charles on helipad (in icy wind)

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Hut we slept in at station F

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Interior of station F equipment hut, note all the holes in the windward wall

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View down from near station F

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1999 crater and lava flow

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Walking (carefully) around the edge of a crater

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1999 crater and landscape

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Inside of a crater

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Inside of a crater

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Mineral-coated rocks around crater

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Walking across the cinders

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Plants in one of the craters

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Plants growing on the edge of a crater

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"Mountain flower" on the edge of a crater

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Looking into a crater

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Peter climbed down into one of the craters

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W-shaped crater

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Walking on from the craters

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Walking on from the craters

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Forest edge from crater area

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Pete, Charles, Otto and Karin in grassland

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Relaxing at Mann Spring camp

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Packs and grass huts at Mann Spring camp

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Peter with huts at Mann Spring camp

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Grassland, day 3

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Trees and grassland

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Porters in the grassland

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Grassland, forest and cloud

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1999 lava flow from below

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1999 lava flow from below

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Grass-covered lava flows

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Trees and peaks in the grassland

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Path through forest

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Group in Bokwango village

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Mount Cameroon Ecotourism office ladies

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Limbe Old Presbyterian church, it may look derelict but it's still in use

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Limbe street scene (in a quiet part of town)

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Boat in bay, from hotel

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Shore near Limbe, from speedboat

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Fishing boats in the mouth of the river, approaching Oron

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Fishing boat near Oron

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