Efogi 2 to 1900

Day 7

The day started even earlier today around 5:30.  My stomach was not right.  Small cramps and a little upset but I managed to hang in there all day.  Not like I was going to do anything different though.

We started walking by 7am today and did not finish till after 3pm.  It was a hard long day and having the upset stomach made it a little worse as I did not want to eat very much, which I was then low on energy, but at least the stomach was not bugging me as much.

As we set off this morning our lead guides, Ben and Killa sang to us.  The song was great and they were very good at getting up in front of us and singing it out.  We started out heading up, and it just seem to keep going up and up.

I am having trouble remembering a lot of the stories today as I think I was concentrating on getting to the spots more than usual.  We climbed up for a good part of 4 hours and we finally reach the top which was around 2000 m.  We all took this opportunity to rest and even lay down on the ground to recover.  The clouds were rolling past us, at our level and the view was amazing!  We have come a long way and the place was rewarding us with spectacular views.

After lunch we inspected a crash site of a American B25 bomber that had crashed into the jungle.  We also made a side trip out to Myola which is a dry lake which the Aussie used for supply drop during the war.  While walking through here, Freddy found some spent ammo just sitting on the ground.  Again it set me off thinking about how amazing it was that it was still here after all this time and why it was here and the people that needed it.

We then headed up some more to the camp for the night, named 1900.  As we come in the clouds rolled in.  It looks like mist everywhere.  I wish I could have taken a photo, but doubt it would work.

We had a quick bath in the creek, but it was absolutely freezing!  But again, felt amazing to freshen up.  It is 100% better than now getting clear and after the shock of how cold it is, it actually feels good on the sore muscles etc.

We are at 1950 m high, so tonight we spent the night close to the fire telling stories.  We managed to stay up till 8:00 pm, but that was hard.  While laying in the tent I can hear the creek trickling, a few night birds singing to each other, What a nice way to go to sleep.

Stomach is still not great, lets hope the sleep sorts things out. Thinking of you, getting closer to being able to call you and tell you how we are going.