With the support of the lovely camp staff and UWA rangers it didn’t take me long to settle into life in Semliki. However one aspect of camp-life took me a bit longer to get used to.
The camp toilet is situated about 30m outside the main camp and can be reached by a gravel path lined on either side by head-height grass. When I first arrived in Semliki I found walking along this path at night somewhat unnerving, probably not helped by the number of horror movies I’d watched involving various terrifying creatures emerging out of long grass!
While I kept telling myself that a snake would not be lying on the path at night, and that the chance of a leopard leaping out of the grass at me was infinitesimally small I still felt uneasy making the first few night-time toilet trips and it was not until my third night in camp that I was able to walk to and from the toilet without a noticeable increase in heart rate.
Written on Friday 9th July
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