However, the sudden fury of last night's spring rainstorm, moved those untended ferryboats away from shore, leaving them crossways in the middle of the stream.
On day 12, we arrived at the niger river where we had to take a ferry across to Timbuktu, you don't know how uncomfortable a four-wheel drive can be until you've bounced around in one for four days.
Rescue teams in Northern Tanzania have resumed their efforts to find survivors of a ferry that capsized on Lake Victoria after halting their operations overnight.
An early morning fire on a crowded river ferry in Bangladesh has left 39 people dead; 70 others were injured; 800 passengers were aboard the ferry, many traveling to visit family and friends for the weekend.
As if he had been shot from a gun, the animal sprang away and galloped toward the big ferryboat that waited at the bank of the Missouri River to carry man and pony across.
" I've got a child that's very dangerous, " said Eliza. " I never heard of it till last night, and I've walked quite a piece today, in hopes to get to the ferry."