We got the gourmet breakfast today, with poached eggs and toast with PB&J before cleaning up, taking down the tents and heading to our last point of interest, Lake Wabby. We parked on a beach and had to hike in 2 KMs to this little gem. After a couple KMs of forest, we trekked across some very hot sand dunes that led down to the lake. If you can call it that. Not sure what the qualifications for lakes are, because by my definition this was a pond. A slew at best. Alas, we were all boiling hot and it was cold water, so we all enjoyed it thoroughly. I was the first of only 4 people to swim across it to the tiny spit of sand on the other side (winner!). We hiked back to the jeeps and our one guide told us about all the things potentially lurking in the underbrush that could kill us and then we walked a wee bit faster back to the trucks. We drove back to the ferry and made it on with about 30 seconds to spare before it headed off back to the mainland (the last 4 trucks were stranded and had to wait for the ferry to return). We filled up the beast with diesel then took it back to the compound where they made us empty everything out and clean the trucks and all the equipment (not sure what they were getting paid for...) then dropped us back at the hostel. We all got to shower finially, which was much needed, even with all the swimming.
6 of our group headed to a restaurant (Or the restaurant, perhaps. I'm not sure if there was more than one) and here I had the best burger I've ever eaten. It was called the Works burger and had a thick beef patty, lettuce, carrots, cucumber, ham, bacon, egg and pineapple. When I read the ingredients at first I thought hmm, I don't know about the pineapple, but it adds a perfect flavor to complete the burger. Then the 6 of us played several different card games back at the hostel until it was really late and we were all nearly delirious from lack of sleep the past 2 nights.
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