Weight A While

We were woken early this morning by the animals. After breakfast we went for a walk to a nearby trail. There were no birds except vultures and no monkeys as there wasn’t any fruit on the trees. Spring is the best time for nature spotting. From the top of the trail hill we could see a mountain in the distance. Our guide told us that it was called Poison Arrow Tree Frog Mountain. Locals did not visit the mountain, not just because of the obvious animals, but the mountain was also home to jaguars and wild boar. It will be our first priority on our next visit to Guyana.

We were leaving the interior today, but instead of the long bus journey we were flying back to Georgetown in a Cessna propeller plane. The plane was so small that we had to have ourselves and our luggage weighed!! Embarrassingly, they thought they had run out of weights for me! They had left the lock on, but why did it have to happen to me?

The plane arrived and we got in and then the plane wouldn’t restart so we had to get off. Whilst the pilot went to phone an engineer, we played Gin Rummy with Aubrey and Daniel. The engineer had decided the problem was due to all the rain and that the engine had got waterlogged. We sat and waited until it dried out a bit. The last 30 minutes of the flight were very cloudy and we went through several rain clouds and heavy downpours. We could see that Georgetown was very wet and waterlogged in places.

Back at Aoife’s we ordered pizza and watched Starsky and Hutch on DVD. Not a classic, but good simple fun.