It’s been an incredibly hard day today. We really didn’t sleep all that well on the boat. We are little bit nervous heading off. Last night, the local gentleman on the boat was giving us some advice about what route to take and instead of  saying they don’t know, instead of losing face, they feel like they have to say something  and this guy  felt he had to tell us that there was a route that the local people use off in the distance and so today we are trying to follow it and its been quite obvious that he never ever had been down that route. It was incredibly heavily vegetated and you will probably notice by the fact that this dot on the map is almost the same place as yesterday’s dot, we already made a couple of miles in fact. We’ve been really really struggling. It’s been pouring rain so we are absolutely drench from head to toe and we’ve got all our wet gear sitting one end of the tent and we’ve got a vaguely dryer end of the tent here  were we’ve snuggled up in our sleeping bags.

On top of the rain, we both have blisters on the inside of the arch of our left foot ’cause we’ve been walking all day on a slope all day in wet shoes, so adjusting those tonight.  Katie fell over a couple of times and almost damaged her ankle quite badly. But we’re still in quiet high spirits and we are about to have dinner and  we will chat with you tomorrow.