Sand

2 February 2022

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Boa Vista is the last island we visit during our Cape Verde trips. It is, together with Sal and Maio, to the oldest, most flat, eroded islands of the archipelago. Boa Vista mainly consists of sand with the occasional mountain. It has beautiful endless white beaches and Deserto Viana, a desert as children imagine a desert, but compact. Locals say the sand in Deserto Viana all came blowing in from the Sahara of mainland Africa. The sand is indeed very fine and soft, so it blows away easily. But how does it all gather in that one place? And why is it so pristine white? (The Sahara sand from the sky that we collect in the rigging is reddish). I do have a few questions about that…