Nigeria, Niger Delta and oil have become synonyms. But until today we didn't experience that at all.

Very early this morning taxi driver Musa took us to the airport in Abuja. Our flight took us to Port Harcourt where William, an employee of Ilse's mother in law (Miriam), collected us from the airport. Our final destination: Bonny Island. Sounds like 'Bounty Island', exotic, beautiful.

But first we had to fight ourselves through the traffic of Port Harcourt, wait for some more hours at the dock, before we could take the ferry to the Island. And there it was, right in my face: the oil industry. Oil containers, oil tankers, oil pipelines, and gas flaring. Where is the beauty of Bonny?

LNG, Liquified Natural Gas is ruling the area, both from what you see and what you do. To be able to meet Miriam at the LNG compound, we had to get a name badge - picture included. To be honest, even our mothers will hardly recognize us from the picture. But for the next couple of days we'll be able to identify ourselves to the enormous amount of guards protecting the enormous gated community to protect the employees of LNG from the outside world.

The reason that Miriam is around, is because she is running a nature park. It is one of the very few initiatives to try to preserve some of the beautiful nature parts of Bonny Island. And we are here to teach some of her staff how to take pictures of the flora and fauna and to film it. Tomorrow we're going for a long walk. It will actually be the first time that we'll be able to see the beauty of Nigeria. Let's hope Bonny will live up to its name.