Orientation With Google Earth

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I've included these Google earth images as orientation to locales referred to in recent entries:

Image1: NW Africa. Interesting to imagine that the mountains of Mauritania were once attached to the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern US, and the mountains of Scandinavia. But it's been a while . . .

Image2: Senegal, with the Cap Vert Peninsula (and Dakar) jutting out into the Atlantic.

Image3: Dakar and the Cap Vert Peninsula. It's as small as it looks. It takes about 20 minutes to drive from Yoff in the north to the Cap Manuel headlands in the south, depending traffic.

Image4: Our immediate area. ISD is maybe a half mile from Plage Ouakam, an easy walk. The Mamelles, two extinct volcanoes, are prominent features on the landscape, aptly named (mamelles is French for breast, as in mammal).

Image5: An oblique view of Plage Ouakam and the Mamelles bluffs, where I've been diving.

Image6: The cove of Plage Ouakam, and the Mosque of the Divinity.

Image7: A wider view with our flat in the upper right, a 5-10 minute walk to the beach.

Image8: Ile de Madeleine is located about a mile from the peninsula, to the west of Dakar.