• Day 43 - Casablanca & Atlantic Swim

    September 28 in Morocco

    My second full day - a swim in the Atlantic is my objective for the day and to spend all my local currency - Moroccan Dirham. Much of it might go in taxi’s as the best swimming beach is over an hour and half walk. Today I’m trying to rest my legs and feet - they’ve copped it in the last two days.
    Caught a local bus to the nearest half decent beach about 2-3km south of where I am. The beach is called Plage Lalla Meryam. Had a dip - quite a rip running along the beach and the tide was coming in quickly. As I was getting out some young surfers suddenly appeared and started catching some nice waves. They were pretty good and got some high air coming off lips.
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