We are at waypoint 84, basecamp 7, also known as Simpang Rikong. Today it rained at sunrise, leaving the track which was similar to yesterdays, to be mostly mud with some dirt tracks. This adverse situation led to some broken leaf springs on at least 2 cars. One CJ and one Jimny.
We stopped for gas earlier today, being civilised human beings, we quietly lined up near the truck with our jerry cans. Then this one guy, probably after staying too long in the jungle, decided to forgo with civilisation and jumped que and demanded that he be served first. Well, we didnt take to kindly to this suffice to say. Premium gasoline was IDR 7,500 per liter (compared to official price of IDR 5400 per liter in Banjarmasin). Hey at least it wasnt IDR 10,000 as we were told to prepare for.
SCS 8 & 9, or at least 8, wsa held today with partial competitors. Some of them are still making their way to the Basecamp as we write this. SCS8 is more of a speed offroad track than anything else. You can see some of this in Iwan Kurniawan's panning shots at our pbase site.
Our little heaven in the jungle is not as big as our previous base camps, so we are kind of cramped and spread out all over the place. Our surroundings are swamps, so no bathing tonight!
We had a video conference this evening with our citybound team mate. It was good to see him after only talking via telephone and e-mail so far. The G-Wave certainly provided enough bandwidth for us to have two way video and voice. here is a screen capture from our friend in Jakarta.
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