Sea to Sea – Day 5 Siuna to Mulukuku
Day 5 – 43 miles on very, very rocky roads
On this particular day, we all handed in some dirty clothes to be washed with the idea that they would be returned to us in the next town later that day. We started out at 7AM and had a fairly “normal” day…up until we made a spontaneous juice stop. Pineapple was the flavor of the day.
As we were paying for our juice-in-a-can, out of the corner of my eye I noticed a 12ish year old girl trying to sneak a picture of us. She quickly hid the camera when she saw me look. I chuckled and told Brian to pose. What started out as one innocent picture turned into an all-out photo shoot. It was hilarious. She had us and others from our group get in formation outside of the store, as well as posing with us and with her other friends.
After rolling into Mulukuku at about 3:15PM, we were invited to take a swim in the river. About 10 of us piled in the back of the pickup truck and away we went.
On the way, we noticed some ladies washing clothes in the river…then we realized they were washing OUR clothes!
It was dusk as we left the river. About 5 minutes down the road, we crossed a different section of the river and saw the ladies again. They had just finished washing our clothes. We gave them a ride to their home and took our clothes with us back to the hotel.
Needless-to-say, our clothes were not dry by morning. In fact, due to some crazy circumstances, our clothes were STILL not dry 48 hours later! I think they smelled worse at that point than they did when we turned them in.
Other highlights of the day were eating fresh fish from the river, laughing uncontrollably on our bumpy truck ride from the river, and having a close encounter with a angry cow who managed to end up with one of our orange Sea to Sea shirts wrapped around his horns (it’s a hilarious story).
