We said goodbye to Marrakech and drove to Essaouira, a fishing port and tourist town on the Atlantic Ocean. It was a pleasant drive through rolling hills and orchards of argan trees, from which a marvelous oil for cosmetic use comes.

We stopped to see if goats really did climb argan trees to eat the leaves, and apparently they do, or at least the goatherds put them up there to eat the leaves, or maybe both.

The goatherds brought this youngster for me to hold, which I did. It was fun until Tim noticed it was eating my hair – a lot of it.

One of several captures of goats dining on argan leaves, posted earlier: