A sunny spell around 7am brought a variety of birds to our campsite. I was very happy to see a Familiar Chat, a species we haven’t seen for several years as we’ve been too far north.
We walked down past Cholo Falls and along the river more or less, to see two other falls. The falls here glide gracefully over and around the smooth dark rocks. We saw pretty little flowers, butterflies, lizards basking and catching flies, a blue-grey slow-worm, millipedes and LOTS of ants. The partial cloud cover kept us comfortable and we really enjoyed being able to walk in the peace and quiet.
Bit of a debacle over hot water for the showers. Some guys had been working all day digging pits for new latrines. They all wanted showers and had over-stoked the donkey and created an air-lock. When I was in the shower I had just got wet and the water stopped. Luckily a member of staff happened to be nearby and, after 20 minutes of standing around feeling cold, I was able to finish my shower.
B made a fire again to burn our rubbish, as this is a rubbish-free site. We also heated our rather out-of -date Heinz tomato soup over the fire and then ate some cold bits in the truck. We are both a bit tired of “odd” meals. B is even fed up with tomatoes.
Put the trail-cam out with some bait, hoping to get photos of the civet. No luck. We had a shot of a tail and back legs going up (or down?) a tree. Days later we decided this was probably a bush-baby, as it had the spatulate toes that they do. Shame it wasn’t on a different tree, as we would have had a great shot of it then.
We walked down past Cholo Falls and along the river more or less, to see two other falls. The falls here glide gracefully over and around the smooth dark rocks. We saw pretty little flowers, butterflies, lizards basking and catching flies, a blue-grey slow-worm, millipedes and LOTS of ants. The partial cloud cover kept us comfortable and we really enjoyed being able to walk in the peace and quiet.
Bit of a debacle over hot water for the showers. Some guys had been working all day digging pits for new latrines. They all wanted showers and had over-stoked the donkey and created an air-lock. When I was in the shower I had just got wet and the water stopped. Luckily a member of staff happened to be nearby and, after 20 minutes of standing around feeling cold, I was able to finish my shower.
B made a fire again to burn our rubbish, as this is a rubbish-free site. We also heated our rather out-of -date Heinz tomato soup over the fire and then ate some cold bits in the truck. We are both a bit tired of “odd” meals. B is even fed up with tomatoes.
Put the trail-cam out with some bait, hoping to get photos of the civet. No luck. We had a shot of a tail and back legs going up (or down?) a tree. Days later we decided this was probably a bush-baby, as it had the spatulate toes that they do. Shame it wasn’t on a different tree, as we would have had a great shot of it then.