After the departure of team A it started as normal,
however after tenses (our elevenses), Jackie asked Mark and I if we could help
Chris with the container! :D We obviously said yes and the adventure began with
a journey in Plastic’s truck. 30 mins
later we arrived at the holding place to find all the contents of the container
lying beside it. We then watch as they
tried to lift the empty container with two fork lifts both on the same
side! It looked as if it was about to
fall over! : ( After 20 mins they
decided to put a fork lift at each side of the back of the container and a
crane at the front to lift the container onto another lorry. Afterwards the truck driver only let us refill
half the container as it was supposedly too heavy so a van and two of our
pickup trucks had to make two journeys to move the remaining equipment to
site. They left three Botswanans, Off-t,
Moses and Jackson as well as Mark and me to watch the equipment left for the
second run. When we got back to site we
only had time to refill the container before darkness. This meant the next day was spent emptying
and repacking the container again!!
Mark Vale and Dobbie
