Caboose

The plan for Saturday was to take a boat across the river to a village called Ekereborokiri and walk through the jungle to another village, where we’d be picked up. We started the day with a breakfast of Indomie and egg at Lady B’s, in the rain:


After breakfast Henry, the Foundation’s boatman, met us and we boarded the Foundation’s speedboat (which has lovely padded seats). We were huddled under a tarpaulin for most of the trip across because of the rain but came out as we approached the tree root which serves as a jetty for Ekereborokiri. As we walked through the village we met Stephen, a local man who had left to work in banking but has returned to manage the community development projects there. We spent a while huddling under a shelter at one of the projects, Stephen and some of the other locals entertained us with a bit of dancing:

We then had a nice, although damp, walk through the jungle. Stephen pointed out interesting things along the way, such as cassava plants and the palm fruit from which palm oil is extracted:

From the jetty in our destination we could see Opobo Town across the river. Henry collected us in the speedboat and we walked back through the town, visiting the market and noticing signs for oddly-named churches along the way.

We had a lovely lunch back at Pete and Mary’s, then Tracey, Jenny and I collected our stuff from Charles’s, preferring to spend the night at Pete and Mary’s (less damp). In the evening we watched The Interpreter and had a look at some pictures.