Well the massage lady didn't turn up last night which sucked a lot. I was still aching when I got up but we had a lot of work to do. Up at the island the concrete had set in buckets holding up the supporting beams for the feeding platform, we now needed to transport them into the middle. Three people per post carried them in over vines and muddy lumps in the ground. The atmosphere inside the forest is so much denser, the heat isn't as much as outside but the damp air makes you instantly sweat. Add to that the Mosquitos and it becomes unbearable.
We carried more materials into the jungle in a chain and then left a group in there to construct it. Aleta and I joined forces with Rebecca to go and finish the last bridges panelling only to arrive to a bodged effort from Kristi. We spent about 20mins working out how to rectify this and finish it without it looking like an orangutan had constructed it. We eventually managed it with time to spare before lunch so went to move some more fence posts down the island.
My shoulders were so sore that I developed a way to carry the posts on a wheel barrow. I managed to get 8 per load which is the equivalent to 4 people loads. After a few loads we made it to the far corner of the island where some of the others were digging holes for them. We all broke for lunch where we had a pineapple curry, which is better than what we had been getting.
For the afternoon Aleta and I teamed up again for more post moving this time anti clockwise round the island to meet up at the far corner. We shifted a good few loads. I estimate we walk roughly 6km on a normal day by the time we have walked from the bus, then to the island and back for lunch repeating this in the afternoon. But today we must have pushed the 10-15km mark, backwards and forwards around the island. Needless to say I was a bit broken by the end, with the walking, the weight and the soaring temperatures.
Dinner was lovely tonight we had fried rice and satay! Delicious! At six pm massage lady turned up and took me into Vickys room. I was told to wear nothing but a surrong. While I got comfy she placed some weird paste on some leaves and started to chew. Apparently it's a hallucinogenic which doesn't surprise me she looked a bit out of it. Having said that she was a natural healer, she knew the body intimately and managed to relieve all my aches and pains with the perfect pressure, a rarity with massages back in the UK. After an hour and a half and nearly every part of my body done she finished by pulling up her top and rubbing oil into her belly! WTF! Odd
Vicky was up next and we all started to worry when she didn't show after two hours. Between us it cost 300000 rupia. Basically nothing for one of the best massages EVER. Sleep soon took over.
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