Killi expedition to Gabon - July 2016
Discovering
the true
primary forest
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D14 - When that does not want...
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An smoothly awakening, the time(weather) during a... long... shock absorbers changing ! We leave finally. It is 2 pm ! On the first kilometers of track, Wen is like a child with its new toy. It is necessary to admit that changes. But we quickly arrive on a broken bridge . After a fast fishing of very beautiful Aphyosemion primigenium, we thus turn back. There is well an other road to reach the initially planned place, but it's too late.
After 1Km on the way back, an event takes place, which may well change the program until the end of the stay. The right front wheel is perpendicular to the other wheel. Ball joint, cardan, brake fluid hose, etc., broken ! Impossible to move the vehicle, no network, and we are in a dead end. It is 3:30 pm, and within less than 3 hours it will be dark. By magic, a "regular" goes that way. He agrees to bring Wen and Laurent until Tchibanga, and to mean looking for us with a mechanic. Once arrived in town, he will abandon us...
After 4 hours of wait, Thibault and I let us see 2 lighthouses arriving at night : a taxi. Wen and a mechanic are inside, with the necessity to repair. Wen says us to take the taxi to return, and he will return with the 4x4 once repaired.
It is 11:30 pm, we still not have news and impossible to contact him. Hopefully everything goes well...
And by the way, the taxi that brought us back ... was just crazy ! It was necessary to have the heart well hung (and hands too !).
The program of tomorrow risk thus to be upset. It was initially planned to sleep to Mouila having made 1 or 2 fishing points in the East. The passage by Moabi is already cancelled considering the very bad track conditions according to obtained information.
Biotope
Our car broken
Our car broken
Aphyosemion primigenium
Butterfly