Stuck in the Mud

The next morning we set off for home in the pouring rain in a convoy of four vehicles ourselves being driven by Nuha, who decided to take a detour to his mother’s house to pick up some fire wood so we left the other vehicles to go on, big mistake. On arriving at his mother’s compound, Paul helped load up the wood with Nuha and his sister, we started to reverse and with wheels spinning the front tyre ended up getting stuck. After a lot of spinning wheels both myself and a philipino volunteer called Venus decided to brave the weather and help by placing wooden chocks under the wheels as by now the rear passenger wheel was also stuck. Two hours later, very wet, muddy and with the help of some locals we finally got back on the road and set off for the ferry terminal at Barra. Luckily for us a ferry was just pulling in so we didn’t have a long wait and arrived back home at about 2.30pm, changed out of our wet clothes, showered and settled down for the afternoon.