Ofi Creek to Nauro

Day 4

Woke up to a beautiful morning at camp.  Was so wonderful sticking my head out of the tent this morning and looking around.  Hard to believe where I am sometimes.

After breakfast, we were told we were doing in the morning what we did all of yesterday.  That sounded like a challenge to me.

David is very happy with how our group is going.  The 3 brothers are all smashing it out so far, lets hope they can all hang in there.

We started the day with a creek crossing which was pretty hard on the rocks cause they were so slippery, but the porters all helped us over, if you needed it. It was a hard slog up some pretty tough hills, but we all made it together as group.  We just get into it, no one complains, we know what needs to be done, and we do it.  The hardest part is to make sure you are looking around an enjoy things as you are doing the hard work.

We got all the way to the top and David told us a story about some diggers that got lost on the wrong ridge line.  After a short break we got stuck back into it and headed to our lunch stop.

Four hours of hard work but we made it to lunch.  We were able to eat, rest a little, hand out wet clothes.  The lunch stop location was amazing.  As we were coming into it, it just transformed into some amazing open views, instead of the dense jungle we had been tracking through. Hard to believe how much it changes sometimes.

The hard stuff was over for the day, except this meant we had to go back down the hills, which is pretty hard on the knees.  After a while of heading down, the landscape changed as we reached an area called the swamp.  The name said it all and the it did not disappoint us as it looked and felt just like one.  Took about 40 mins to get through it.  A few more mud and creek crossing bought us to a massive river crossing.  Previous trekker and porters had fallen a few big trees that were now being used as a bridge.  The green Machine quickly set up some ropes up to help us over the log without falling into the river.(they are very thoughtful)

Was not far form here where we reached tonight camp, which was a little village that had been created just for trekkers.  It had a creek running through it which we had a great bath in.  It was again cold, but so refreshing.  It is a great way of cooling down and relaxing the body.

The village is looked after by 3 families and there are a few kids around. Once the sun had gone down, I bought out some glow sticks for the kids.  The loved them!  As it was already dark, the kids were in their huts, but one of the green machine walked me over to the village and one brave little kid come out.  I cracked the glow stick and the smile on his face was amazing. Once the other saw what was going on, they came from everywhere.  They were all dancing around with them and having fun.  No photos though as it was so dark.

The green machine cooked again, looks like they will be doing it every dinner time.   It was then story time.  We were all pretty tired tonight and only managed 8:30 before we hit the sack.

I have so many stories to share, would be great to be able to talk on the phone :D