6 December
Sepopa
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Today everyone arrived to get ready for
our weekend Island Camping Trip. Most of the people who came we
hadn't met before and were all very nice. The house was packed and
the ladies made an awesome dinner for everyone. Everyone is stoked
about leaving in the morning!
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7 - 10 December
Swamp Stop
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Steph:
Aimee's tiny little house was covered
in sleeping, hung-over bodies this morning. It was actually pretty
impressive how everyone was ready to go by 7am. Theo and Kyle picked
us up with their big trucks and we headed over the Swamp Stop. We had
to wait while the boats were being loaded and a lot of people thought
that was a good enough reason to start quenching their thirst with
the ridiculous amounts of alcohol that were available.
Finally, we all packed into two boats
(there were about 26 people in total) and headed into the delta. It
was beautiful. The channel was lined with papyrus reeds, the water
was clean, the weather was nice. The two boats gave themselves names,
Boat A and A Boat, and the competition about who was cooler and
better lasted all weekend. Boat A clearly won. Kyle was our captain
and less than two hours into the ride, he spotted a crocodile,
stopped, drove up to it and CAUGHT it! Just like Steve Irwin. It was
pretty awesome. We stopped at a smaller island and made some lunch.
It was breathtaking. The plant life and bird sounds made it look and
feel like Jurassic Park. We saw a bunch more corocodiles, including a
few pretty big ones. Kyle wow'ed us with great fun facts about the
area, the Kogle's (Bridget and Matt) taught us about all the birds we
saw and the rest of us just sat back and enjoyed the ride.
The island we stayed on was called
Pepere Island. It has an area set up for camping, a kitchen,
bathrooms and anything else we might need but is still very much the
"bush". We camped right by the water and you could hear the
hippos grunting all night long. We didn't really spent that much time
on the actual island. On saturday morning, we loaded up the boats
with more alcohol and took off toward an unknown destination. It was
really so nice being out on the water. The weather was actually
really hot in the morning, but very pretty. Later in the afternoon
the clouds rolled in and we got caught in the rain for about an hour.
Our boat took this as an opportunity to show off our vocal skills and
sang one calssic rock song after the other. The other boat got into
it as well, but we were better :) It can be said that our beverages
had taken effect by this point. It was a very good time, to say the
least. And the delta was breathtaking. Especially once the clouds
rolled in. I really love clouds. The rain clouds make all other
colors pop. See photos.
The weekend was a total sucess, to say
the least. We met more incredible people, made more awesome friends,
saw a bunch of wildlife and enjoyed the biggest inland delta in the
world in a way very few people do. We want to thank our new peace
corps peeps for including us (again). Thank you thank you thank
you!!!
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