Month: September 2008

I have started to put some of my photos from my Uganda trip online, available here on Facebook Getting on below Kalagala Falls Reuben demonstrating the right-hand line down Bujagali Falls One of the many beautiful sunsets we were treated to Looking down the tongue at Silverback. If you look…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…