A new boat would ferry tourists from here to the mainland.
Two and a half months after leaving home, Omar spent three days crossing the Mediterranean with 28 other people in a boat "not bigger than from here to that box": $700.
Word is that it served as a tavern to the men on boats who would journey from here to New Jersey and back.
It was blown in by heavy winds, said Gaidis Hartmanis, the operator who controls boat traffic here from a six-story control tower originally built in 1821.
"If a boat comes here from Kinshasa, who knows if there's soldiers or spies aboard?" said Maurice Etukumalo, a rebel official in Kisangani.
From here, the boat and equipment had to be pulled up the Yukon about 400 mile.
The smaller dock incorporates six residential berths for house boats, while a passenger boat service to Granary Wharf runs from here.
Twenty-three boatsetet off Nov. 9 from here, on the west coast of France.
The only way onward from here is by boat.
From here, take a boat to a number of points on the peninsula.
