Hash Rekki - Take 5

Nicole, Boel and I are laying the hash next Tuesday. This is my first time to lay one. We decided since we all live in the same simpang we should lay it just across the road from our house. Our first rekki attempt (Take 1) was 10 days ago. You can see how we did from Boel's blog . On that day basically we didn't come out of the jungle how we wanted - we could not find a way out so we had to turn around and walk out the way we came in.

So we asked our neighbour to come and show us the way out few days later (Take 2) - we thought we were doing so well until we came to the last part of the run - water reservoir, this was supposed to be mostly dried out so that we can walk getting only knee high wet. Let me tell you what happened - We had to swim!!! Ben, Claire and Simba went first. They were walking confidently (even though they were in the water up to their waist (Simba the doggy was already swimming at this point) and suddenly they went down in the water. It got deeper and they couldn't touch the bottom!! We were all soaked (as you would when you swim in the lake!).

We weren't sure about this deep part of the reservoir so we went out for a rekki again (Take 3) this time in the pouring rain / storm. Please don't ask us why... As you can guess we didn't get too far on that day. But we now know for sure the reservoir will be too deep to walk across and looking too dangerous since it has been very stormy and rainy recently.

So somehow we have to find a way to come out of the jungle bypaassing it. Hence Take 4. This morning Boel and Nicole went in again to find a way out. (I had to go to Geckos so I didn't go) Since the men had their hash at the same site on Wednesday we thought it will be easier to follow their paper to find the trail leading to our pass. It wasn't that simple - They lost the paper half way through and didn't get anywhere.

We had a little meeting this morning and decided by looking at the map Boel's Garmin watch shows us, to do another rekki this evening. So off we went AGAIN. This time we were quite confident that we will find our way out easily. Should be right? This is our 5th attempt!!



Very nice and jungly



We stopped for a gummy break.
Boel and Nicole

Now all we have to do is go in again (this will be Take 6!!) on Tuesday afternoon to lay it with proper paper. We are sure all this hard work will pay off. It will be a fantastic run! and on on /shout out will be at my place - What sort of food do you think we are preparing - very hard to guess ha??

I am very excited now! It is going to be a great hash!!