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Published: March 30th 2016
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I took “Paul’s Van” with the girls this day as we had split up 4 and 4 with the 2 vehicles, but I hadn’t had much chance to spend time with my skydiving friends; “Team NO Sleep” and no sleep it was. We laughed, we giggled, we gossiped, caught up on mutual friends and life in general, was a great way to pass the time while driving to QE Park. Rhonda had captured some great photos of life from the van of which I’m including a few in this blog.
On route we stopped at the 'official' equator line - got a couple of great group shots. I ran north yelled "Northern Hemisphere" and then I ran south and yelled "Southern Hemisphere" and back and for and back and forth (keeping in mind we had been in a vehicle for a few hours already). Little things keep me entertained!
We arrived at our campground, and it was lovely, large tents (yes Cathy and I got the large tent this time too!) on raised cement platforms overlooking the river’s edge. I could hear what I thought was thunder in the distance, and soon realized it was the hippos grunting and
groaning and carrying on a general conversation. What a wicked noise!
The group went for lunch; and I wasn’t that hungry so I spent the time alone on our porch listening to the wildlife of all shapes and sizes go about their day. It was an incredible zen moment and I felt so peaceful, calm and was so happy just being there. We talk about that all the time in our chaotic lives, see memes on facebook constantly about how important it is to just be ‘in the moment’ and relax, and take a breath. Well I did, and it was perfect.
Later in the afternoon (when it started to cool off somewhat) we went for our first game drive in Queen Elizabeth N.P. (our campsite was 10 minutes from the entrance). Having been lucky enough to have done safari in both Kenya and Tanzania I didn’t think I would be that excited about it, but I was wrong. It was a hot lazy day, but we still saw heaps of animals (as my photos will show) along with a magnificent sky and beautiful sunset. The bird life is what impressed me so much, just loved their brightly
coloured wings.
After our drive was candlelight dinner at our campground, and I quickly retired to bed as we had a 5:30 start the next day for yet another game drive. While I was reading suddenly a giant 2 inch black bug with more than 4 legs (read earlier blog about my more-than-4-legs phobia) landed on my face. Did I mention ON my face?
I screamed like a banshee, jerked out of bed like I had been electrocuted flung it off of me with enormous enthusiasm and it ended up under Cathy’s bed. She woke up and initially was nonchalant about the whole thing going, yes Ned, a bug landed on your face, it’s all good, don’t worry, placating me slightly. Then she SAW said bug. And shuddered in horror while saying “THAT was on your face?”. Ah, you understand me now dear roommate, yes, how quick you were to dismiss my horrors J
Cathy was brave enough to squish it (sorry not very Buddhist of me) with her shoe, and then white goop shot out of it (this was getting grosser by the second) and we had to clean it up. And by we I mean
Cathy. But I cheered her on from my bed in a semi sitting, foetal position shivering. She needed something to scoop so I offered my plastic spoon and she scraped it onto a piece of paper and into the garbage can and outside of the tent said can went. THEN back to bed, with me searching every inch of the ceiling of our tent before closing my eyes very, very slowly. Sleep with one open....... (LOTS OF PHOTOS BELOW)
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