Uganda 2007
So the team arrived at NRE campsite, feeling very confident of pulling a wave wheel on Hypoxia, indeed ready after only hitting one local in the taxi on the way there. So after waking Ian from his coma, they had a few beers and after contemplating running the Dead Dutchman in the dark, decided to get some sleep so they could go evn bigger the following day.
The next day came and after looking at the river, backup was called in in the form of Jimmy, with his boat hopefully scaring off and potential predators.
So then the brave souls of the team ventured to the river, Chris got a bit scared and jumped in without his boat, but after some counselling from Jimmy, he was convinced he would be ok. First point of call was ribcage followed by Bujagali Falls, with chris having regained his confidence:
After some big moves on the 1st day, with just a quick silverback run, the team went in search of bigger and better things, so someone had a bright idea.... run all of day 1 and day 2 (thats about as far as we travelled on the plane to get there) in one go, but obviously wasnt a problem for a bunch of elite athletes, that night saw much alcohol and a trip to the barbers for kev:
We dont know who the girl is, but she did very rudely run away half way through leaving kev with a bit of a mullet! So as the holiday progressed, some invaluable life lessons were learnt:
1. Mark learnt that motorbikes on wet, muddy roads dont really work very well:
2. Chez learnt that rocks are most definately harder than his face and they will win the battle every time:
3. Chris learnt playing extreme tig with Ian is a bad idea:
During the course of the holiday epic expedition
Kev passed into adulthood with his 21st birthday and mark got a little
closer with his 20th birthday, on the same day would you believe. The
team consumed a beverage or two, sang a few songs and had a alltogether
jolly evening where it was learnt that Kev cannot do beer bongs, and Mark
is even worse than Kev:
So after a few beers, Kev and Mark almost made up for their beer bong performance with the shots, well Mark didn't vom until at least the 3rd glass full of shots, Kev was debatable but nevertheless Mark couldnt wait to get going the next morning:
So after two weeks or so, most of the team was struggling to hack the pace of the paddling and went to take some pictures of stuffed crocodiles and a pigeon in a tree:
But Ian and Mark battled through and completed at least ywo hours paddling in the 4 days the rest of the team were gone birdwatching, and even found time to do some flatwater action!
It was finally time to head on down to the chilling capital of the world, where the day actually doesnt start until 5 in the evening, giving Mark enough time to read one page of his book every day! So with our batteries recharged and bellies full of the nicest soup in the world, it was time to head to the mighty Nile Special..... its so special it has a LAGER named after it!!
So after showing up some french guys who could only do massive blunts and the odd barrell roll, the team headed back to spend their last few days at NRE, where Mark tried despeately to avoid Dan, the Boda Boda man who was after his blood!!
