Ferries from Ipare (Ondo)

At 45.2 nautical miles, this is the longest single leg recorded anywhere on the Nigerian network — the next longest is 35.8. One sailing leaves Epe Ayetoro Jetty at 12:00, Monday to Saturday, and takes 150 minutes to reach Ipare.

No return departure is listed, so the published record covers the eastbound half only. Two and a half hours is also far beyond anything else on these waters, where the typical crossing runs from two minutes to half an hour.

The route follows the lagoon and creek system east from Lagos State into Ondo, behind the coastal barrier that separates it from the Atlantic. This is the far end of a continuous inland waterway that runs for hundreds of kilometres along the Bight of Benin, and a midday departure on a two-and-a-half-hour boat is what serves communities the road network reaches slowly, if at all.