New Year Day, 2010.Kokrobite Beach.Kobrorite is one hour driving from the capital Accra, and the white sanded shore line makes a great weekend getaway for locals and expats alike.
Spending the New Year Day on a beach seems to be an annual celebration here, especially for the young and restless. Kokrobite is packed with 20s and early 30s, we are the definite minority here. Hundreds of young couples, singles and everyone in between played in the with the waves or on the beach with friends. Soccer balls flying around, kids were busy running around.
Even walking vendors selling beads, oranges, pineapples, fish, you-name-it seemed to be having a great day. Three 7 or 8 year old boys carried an aluminum basin of coconuts, which run out before the boys could trun around and got back to us.
One young couple sat by the edge of water, her back lying on his chest. When the waves came ashore and created an whiteout, the water foams surrended them, and they seemed to be floating in an island of bubbles for a second.
Football, the national pastime is the play of the New Year Day. Not only did we drive by a field where a local game was being played (6 hours later when we drove home, the games were still ongoing), the young men were all treat the beach like another street for fatancy football. Within a few months, the World Cup will be held in South Afirca, the first African country to host the games, the footballmania will heat up even more in Ghana.
No one seemed to mention the domestic double digit inflation, the failed terror attack attempted by an African, and many other glooms and dooms in the 2009, and everyone is enjoying the arrival of something new with the hope that the New Year will bring them something better.
Happy New Year!
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