I went on a field trip with the ecology class to Tumani Tenda eco tourism camp. Tumani Tenda is a village and a good example of a community based conservation project. The whole community works together to work the farm, manage the land, build, and run the tourism projects. Everyone has a job but all the people in the community work together to complete all the tasks. People can visit the camp and go on forest walks, boat rides in the mangroves, birdwatching, even make honey. A guide told us that there are Africa manatees in the water but that the best time to see them is at night when the moon is full.
http://www.tumanitenda.co.uk/
I frickin love mangroves! So much so that when I was in Costa Rica I did my independent project on the mangroves in the Puntarenas region. This picture is of red mangroves, which have the characteristic prop roots. There were some buttonwoods, or white mangroves, there too but I learned that there are no black mangroves in the Gambia. 
Spiny orb weaver spider
They're on a boat!
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