Gorée Island - Île de Gorée as Riven: Mysterious Surprises Abound

Guarding the small harbor, cannons face outward at the fort at Gorée Island - Île de Gorée.  A short ferry ride from the West Africa continental mainland, it seems almost an alien world to itself of volcanic geology and crashing Atlantic swells. The intrepid and curious explorer finds history, folklore, legend, plus a real-life adventure worthy of the mystery game Riven along the quirky jumble of old and new, along winding footpaths.

Gorée Island - Île de Gorée as mysterious as the game Riven for the imaginative visitor with grand fortifications and stern walls that guide the wanderer to mysteriously beckoning doors.  What was this for? Who built it? What secrets does it all hold to discover?  What trail leads to another - clues, messages? Once here, how does one leave?  The lonely jetty is lapped by waves, but the ferry isn't tied there.  Will it come back? Is there another way to depart this fascinating, yet perplexing place?

Strange exotic plants loom overhead - is this really natural or a computer artist's imagination? 

Which doors to test on Gorée Island - Île de Gorée ? Some are open, others closed, never to budge.  What seemed to be a passage was blocked. What seemed to be nothing was the way.

Everywhere on Gorée Island - Île de Gorée ends at the sea.  The trail was false, turn back again.  The way to leave is not by there.

Towers and stairs to rendezvous ahead? There must be people here, but they wait and watch.  Is this the right way or a false trail?

Numbers, signs of clues and enigmatic warnings that every move is being watched.  Can one leave with what one has discovered?  Should one pass? Venture forward or turn away?

The massive iron artillery of Gorée Island - Île de Gorée pivoted in away from the sea.  What purpose is meant by this?  Strange noises from underground, that there are rooms and passageways in darkness underfoot, entered only by the foolish, shunned by the wise.

Strange machines to animate and control - trial and error then at last with grinding gears and bolts clanging they reveal their secrets, doors open, numbers revealed, remember them.

Then, push the tree boughs aside at Gorée Island - Île de Gorée and gasp to discover a silent towering monument of a great commemoration of old, silent and weathering in the relentless sea breezes. Lonely it seems, that great day of people and ceremony fading into the mists of time, standing now in a grand plaza gazing at the continent across the blue water.

Unexpectedly, around the corner, a curious residence clings to the cliff, a whimsical garden with two computers on pedestals in the front yard.  All the signs of someone living inside are there, but no one can be seen.  Is this at last the end of the search?  The control to the portal to leave the island?  Remember the clues and enter the code. Hurry back to the portal and see.

The portal to escape has opened! Hurry before it closes and locks forever!

Turn quickly to glimpse Gorée Island behind before the portal closes, a haunting redoubt of surreal beauty and hidden mysteries under a tropical blue sky!