Lost World – Day 2

Monday May 10, 7am: Am already up & dressed! I slept surprisingly well last night, woke up at 6.15am and got up thinking I was well early – but the hammock was already taken this morning – damnit J.
Last night, after dinner, we discussed today's schedule – today is training day. We have to be ready (with lunch boxes prepared ourselves) at 8.30am. Everyone turned in pretty early last night – in part (in my opinion) due to tiredness, in part because there is nothing to do here once it gets dark J. And I mean nothing – ok, you can read some nature books on puma & jaguar. This is a real expedition – we had it pretty cushy on the Ushuaia. I was one of the last to turn in at 9pm, and I really wondered how I was going to get to sleep because I didn't feel at all tired. But it was really (and shockingly) cold last night (9C), and once in my toasty warm sleeping bag, my eyelids got heavy quite fast. I woke up with a start around 1am, grumbled to myself about how I was going to get back to sleep after a good 4 hours and then went out like a light again until near to 6 this morning. Am hungry now...waiting for breakfast to be ready so I can eat & make my lunch.
PM: Spent the rest of today going over safety procedures, how to use GPS and compass and what to do in case of emergencies. Exhausted from the amount of information to take in. In the late afternoon we took a short walk into the forest to practice making mud track traps & how to set camera traps. Early night tonight, tomorrow will be our first proper trek.