Chicks Team is Complete

Just another quick update to say we’re all still alive. We just spent three nights down at Hairy Lemon, an island resort further down the river owned by an Aussie couple and their young son and wiry terrier. It’s very chilled out, no internet or phones and the supplies all come from Jinja township an hour away. Lots more paddling, the Brissy girls turned up last night – we were all in the bar drinking shots as it was Kat’s and one of the Irish girl’s birthdays… I got to bed about 5am with some mad frenchie paddlers pretending to be English trying to collapse my tent while whispering “I would like a cup of tea and I love the queen” in extremely strong French accents (one of these guys is European champ in freestyle).
Two of my friends from Christchurch randomly appeared in the bar last night which is awesome. It’s two of the polytech guys that I hung out with in ChCh last year and I had no idea they were going to be here so it’s pretty exciting. Can’t wait to paddle with them.
Half the Irish crew leaves today and tomorrow so the bar should be a bit quieter – the Irish boys Killian and Dave are on an all day bender at the moment because they are leaving, they’ve got Kat in the bar drinking shots too – it’s lunchtime.
On a sad note, one of the paddlers from the rafting company died last week in a traffic accident over here - I had met him briefly but didn’t really know him but obviously the crew over here are pretty close so it’s hit a few people pretty hard.
Hmmm what else – well this place is awesome, we’ve been boating a lot, seeing monkeys and amazing kingfisher type birds not to mention a few snakes and monitor lizards. We did the hokey pokey with the children at the take out after yesterday’s paddle – they though we were hilarious…