Archive for September, 2008:

Safari Photos

I have uploaded some of my photos from our Safari at Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda. The photos are available here on Facebook

Uganda photos

I have started to put some of my photos from my Uganda trip online, available here on Facebook

Uganda – The trip is now complete…

I thought that my previous post, earlier this morning, would be the last one I would write from Uganda. That was still my thoughts until I got half way down the last rapid this morning. We started off running the Hump, which we both managed without a single roll. Next up was Bujagali and I

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Uganda – Last day

Well, the time has almost come to say goodbye to this amazing place. I have really enjoyed my trip out here and will be sad to board the plane home later today. Following our return from Safari on Sunday night we planned to spend Monday night at the Hairl Lemon campsite. We organised a Mutatu

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Uganda day 11 – Entertaining times

Well, it turns out I spoke a bit too soon in my last blog post on Thursday. Following my post we went to run some backchannels – namely Bladerunner and Brickyard. Bladerunner we have run before so know the line well. Max went down first and just flipped in the hole and the bottom. I

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Uganda day 7 – Lovin' it!

The internet has been down here for a few days so I have not been able to post sooner. Since my last post we have run all of the main rapids on the river. On Saturday we paddled from the bottom of Kalagala Falls down to Nile Special. Paul made it as far as a

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Uganda day 2 – We finally arrive

At approximately 0740 local time (0540 UK time) we finally touched down at Entebbe airport – over 24 hours since we arrived at Gatwick. After collecting our luggare, we discovered that somewhere in the past 24 hours we had managed to lose one bag (Paul’s main luggage), but all the boats and remaining kit had

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Uganda day 1 – The long way round

Wow – what a day it has been so far. The plan was to catch the 0740 flight from Gatwick to Brussels, then the 1040 flight from Brussels to Entebbe to land there about 2100. Everything was going to plan until our first flight missed it’s departure plot. This meant we were unable to take

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