On The Hunt...

Day 19. We'd just spent the first night with the tribe! They're so very cool, much cooler than you. The only SLIGHTLY bad thing was that our lovely group was split up overnight. Different small groups stayed in different houses that were linked to the main longhouse. I was in one room with Calvey and Kyle, with Soos and Annie next door! Beds were matresses on the floor (...soon infested by ants that had decided to attack the "parmesan" cheese that Calvey was carrying!) The walls were paper thin, almost literally. You could see and hear a slither of the happenings next door and you also had a good insight into Soos' & Annie's room! Mmm... brassiere! <----- sneaky little sex frustrated boys looking into naked Annie & Soos! HA!
After a highly scrumptious breakfast (they feed us like kings here!), it was the first day of the project phase! And what work we did! After walking a fair distance to the outer reaches of the village, we basically WATCHED the locals repair/build a bridge. The only thing we significantly did was to briefly carry the bat-inhabited, oversized grass (bamboo) that was cut for us. The locals were a menace with the chainsaw. It looked so dangerous, flailing this machine wearing no safety gear, whilst standing in the middle of a semi-destructed very wobbly bridge!
The new bridge was soon built, although the old one looked perfectly adequate and far chunkier! Ah well, there's still a few more days of "work" to go!
Afternoon: on the hunt! With the locals armed with machetes and blow-pipes... and guns we set off into the depths of the jungle to kill us some meat! We walked, dared to cross some swirling rivers, we sat, we waited, we sat, we waited, we sat, we waited... i carved my name on a log!... oh but we caught nowt! Instead, we played good waiting games... "In the land of odd..." Silly Annie.
But i did see a monkey!
Dejected, we walked back to the village and after more scrumptious food (dear god, wild boar is nice!), it was night. Me, Calv, Soos & Annie talked the night away, whilst tucking into a secret bag of flying fish that no-one knew about! Mu ha ha. How cheeky...