Day 2 – 2nd May
Tired eyes and sleepy
mind awoke early today for the early morning trip to the jungle where Pie camp
is. We all packed what we needed for the trip and got ourselves prepared with a
big breakfast and water on hand. Our ride came at half 9 to load our stuff, the
car journey took us around 3 hours, the roads were great and then the final
road to the port was slow, bumpy, wet, and then very bumpy, and then very wet. We had
to get out of the car in preparation to push the car out of the water, luckily
we didn’t have to, but we did get pretty muddy in the process.
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| Lucerna |
Once we arrived at the
port at Lucerna, we got on the boat for the final let of the
journey to the Pie. The boat trip lasted about 45 minutes, and we pulled up
just after a waterfall, Zoe told us, “Oh, that’s where we’re getting dropped
off!” My immediate reply was, “fuck off, really?!”. She was pointing towards a
steep, muddy cliff (at this time it was also raining), this was going to be fun
with all our heavy bags, I though. We managed to clumber up, we got super
soaked (and I’m not talking about the rain this time!) the humidity here is
pretty brutal, it seems that just breathing makes you sweat, but hey, I was
embracing the hot, red, wet look. Sexy. The site was another 500m ish away, up
hill. This wouldn’t be a problem but after 5 hours of travelling, no food since
8am and with the intense weather, it felt like I was climbing a mountain. When
we arrived at camp it was like something out of a fairy tale, the huts here are
super cool, and there is no electricity other than a small generator that goes on for a couple of hours a day for laptop
chargers etc, and there are hammocks to chill out on and a great open space for
all us interns/volunteers/coordinators to relax and socialise. I was even
happier to be greeted by food. I almost shed a tear with happiness.
The sun sets here at
about 6pm, we got out a few candles to eat dinner with and then played some
cards, Ass Hole, to be more specific. I was pretty tired at 7pm, I’d like to
say that the 23 hours of travelling got to me but I’m not sure I can blame the
lack of sleep. I was ready for bed when I saw thunder across the canapés of the
jungle, holy shit I was excited! The storm was moving really fast and before I
knew it, it was behind me, I looked out and I suddenly saw the night sky – why
did it take me so long to look up – I was amazed to
see the amazing, cloudless, southern sky, and what a sight it was. For the
first time EVER in real life I saw the Milky Way galaxy, suddenly the
exhaustion left me and I was running to get my camera. I didn’t bring my
beastly tripod but Zoe luckily had one, so we, along with Corrie, stood out
watching the sky while I zoned into my photographer mode...
A few distant lightning sparks filled the night sky, along
with a couple of comets and of course, that beautiful milky way. My heart felt
full. Happiness overwhelmed me. I like the jungle.
Fx
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