Today we anchored in Porto Novo which is a small city on Santo Antao Island in the Republic of Cape Verde. It's located about 350 miles off the west coast of Africa and comprised of ten islands - nine of which are populated. Joe, Karin, Larry and I took a full day ship's tour in a 4x4. Fortunately for us, the local leader of our tour (Norbert) rode in our 4x4 so we were first in the caravan line for the entire trip. Norbert's English was great as he'd spent several years going to school in Rhode Island! We sat on benches in the open bed of the vehicle until it got too dusty. I took lots of pictures standing in the bed and this is why, in many of the photos, you'll see the taxi sign (Aluguer). This is our 4x4: Our tour began in the harbor area. There are ferries that take people to and from the other islands with their goods. We started our tour by driving through Porto Novo which is a pretty town. ...