One Boat and Two Boats are, on the face of it, very peculiar names for what are now respectively a road intersection and a village en route to Green Mountain, the highest mountain on the island.
Historically one and two (why one and two I don’t know) upturned boats were set up as shelters for travellers on their journey down to the coast from Green Mountain. The boats were carefully positioned where they provided shelter from the afternoon sun on the back from Green Mountain. Such shelter was not required on the journey up the mountain in the morning when temperatures were cooler
With the development of the village at Two Boats the two boats there disappeared and only the one boat at One Boat remains to be seen. The boat at One Boat was restored in 1966.
Now that we understand that, we can now turn to why there is a large array of trophies on display at the base of One Boat.
It has become, in more recent times, the custom that when sports people depart from the island, they leave their trophies inside the bus-shelter-like boat – perhaps on the basis that they mean more on Ascension than anywhere else.
Another, older, departing the island tradition can be seen a little down the road en route to Georgetown – see my separate review : Leaving the island forever.
This blog entry is one of a group (loop) of entries on my trip to Ascension Island. I suggest you continue with my next entry – HERE.
To return to the beginning of this loop click HERE.
The Rambling Wombat 
Leaving sporting trophies behind is such a strange tradition. I’d love to understand the story behind that… how and why it started. Do you remember where some of them were from and what sports they represented?
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