No blog for a long time now… All the better reason to bombard you with an epic now!
Easter weekend was spent on the Cessi islands, some small islands located in Lake Victoria. You can catch a boat from Entebbe (about a four hour drive from Jinja) to the Cessi islands, although there is only one, so very little space for the three hour boat ride!
This is before the boat ride, a really nice bar is behind me, but on the unpainted stone wall is a really nice and very expensive plasma TV showing the football!!
Luckily the long boat journey did let me take lots of silly arty pictures of people looking thoughtful and windswept.
Sophie was a massive fan of the cheesy pics
You can’t really see it, but basically, that faint ring around the sun is a rainbow that is a full circle!!! I’m sure this has its own name… but in the meantime I’m suggesting the ‘Ramsay Ring’.
It really was a very long boat ride, I just couldn’t stop taking silly photos (Nile Special is the best local beer by far)
The boys struggled to keep there tops on for long
When we arrived we were greeted by hundreds of people on the dock inviting us to stay at there various hotels, luckily we’d already booked a place called Hornbill Campsite, they had dorms for seven of us, and the other three had to camp.
It was an interesting campsite, run by two utterly insane Germans who smoked a lot and told us the first night that they had slaughtered a pork (Accompanied with slaughtering hand gesture and noise) and we could come to the buffet later that night. While devouring the brilliant pork we discovered that their taste in music didn’t really range much beyond hardcore German rock!
The night camping wasn’t exactly the best… I’m very very pleased with the maiden night of my Vango Banshee 300, although African rains and a rushed construction didn’t make it the best nights sleep, its next outing was far far more successful!
After the tent was set up and everyone was settled we went to the beach for the sunset. Technically its best not to swim in the water because of Bilharzia but I wasn’t going to let that stop me, so I went for a very quick swim before getting too scared of the threat of crocodiles!
After that I just took loads and loads and loads of sunset pictures…
The next morning I got up and went into town for breakfast of plain chapatti! Somehow I ended up being ditched by everyone else and exploring the island on my own. I managed to see a random pig sat in the middle of some trees and had a group of monkeys attack me with fruit!
When everyone got back to the campsite it was beach games time! Initiated by Joe, the first round was “Midget sumo wrestling”
Ollie lost
Tom won, even despite the lack of the use of his hands!
Next was wheelbarrow racing, and after that was crossing the river of sand! In the end, my team (Team Victorias – pronounced Victorious) lost to Team Nelson.
The evening was spent around the campfire, with a fairly early bed since we had to get up early to catch the boat back.
In the morning we got up at 6.30 to get on the boat by 7. As we left the campsite at 7 it started to rain, this rain didn’t stop until about two hours into the extremely cramped boat journey and has left several people with broken phones and cameras!
It was a brilliant weekend and I would definitely recommend it as a place to relax in Uganda, although there was basically nothing to do!
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