May 7, 2008...3:53 pm
Welcome to the big mud-hole in the Southeast !
Nice big mud-hole in the Southeast of Liberia between Fishtown and Harper. And the rainy season is just starting. No wonder that whole towns are cut off, sometimes for weeks during the rainy time of the year. Even the logging companies, who had extremely heavy machinery, used to shut down for about four month each year.
The mud-hole has actually three lanes that are already filled with water, and one in the foreground of the photo. That one runs along the dry embankment, but is only passable for 4×4 off-road vehicles.
Bigger items like the Volvo-Truck have to go through the water-filled lanes and will get bogged down. Then, the driver and his assistant normally dive under the vehicle and dig the hole a little deeper. They end up looking like lemurs, but they get the truck out finally. Until the next mud-hole that is, where the whole process repeats. The digging has the unfortunate effect of getting one vehicle out, but the hole will be even more treacherous for the next one. When the rainy season is in full swing, hole like this are sometimes lined with trucks and cars on both sides, waiting for the waters to subside.
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