DATE: 21MAY 2013
SITE: SPG 492-28 JLN MUARA, KG SG HANCHING
HARES: Duchess of Cambridge/Le-Anna
FRONT HORN:
RYVITA
BACK HORN: HASH
WIT
As I was leaving from
Mata Mata it was raining and the sound of distant thunder didn’t bode well for a
dry hash. But of course that means nothing in Brunei – localised rain can mean
you drive from perfectly dry, through a patch of 200 metres where it is
absolutely hosing down, to instant dry again. It was actually a lovely dry
evening in Sungai Hancing. By the time I had walked to the tent to sign in, I
had heard the words ‘lollipop’ and ‘long’ several times and this was soon backed
up with a notice attached to the sign in board saying ‘1 ¾ hours for middle
walkers, make sure you take a torch’. Not a good start for me, after a few days
of stomach cramps and not eating much – I was just psyched up enough to push
myself around a normal run for the sake of the words, but a long run – forget
it! The ever faithful Trailblazer overheard me saying so and kindly offered to
fill in the middle bits for me. A leisurely amble with Alison sounded much
better.
We set off through
some new housing and soon went past the more familiar Simpang where Cheryl and
Magic Roundabout used to live. The paper led us into the jungle and up a decent
sized hill (for someone with not a lot of energy to spare anyway). The trail
headed right at the top of the hill and after a short way, the sounds of
‘checking from here’ could be heard. We reached the y of the
lollipop, with the ‘in’ sign pointing left and down into the valley, and so to
first check. We chose to walk up the ‘out’ trail for a bit and then turned
around, taking in the sights of some new and very white Mediterranean style
houses along the way. We were greeted with a lovely rainbow as we arrived back
at the on-on site.
The trail through the
jungle was very pleasant and the usual Lucky Garden atmosphere. Some of the new
ones were tricked into thinking they were out when we popped on to the fence
line of the National Security Centre along Salambigar Link. It was not to be, we
were soon back in the jungle, but before long on to the lolly pop.
All the hens were
safely out just on dark and the shout up began, minus JM Ryvita, who was needed
elsewhere. The newly crowned Wonder Woman took the hares away. Two first time
guests, Julie from NZ and Tuti from Indonesia were welcomed. Two new members,
Cath and Rave were also welcomed into our hash family. Dr Zur looked very
pleased with herself as she celebrated her 50th run and remembered
her challenging introductory run at Kota Batu.
Dizzy offered to be
ice queen next week, Sticky Rice gave some notices and Alice in Wonderland still
wants more pencils for her Cambodia trip. JM Ikea invited us all to join her new
and secure hash facebook and admitted to being a numbers geek as she reeled off
all sorts of statistics for our first half year. Hash wit gave us a quick bit of
wit about her good driving and Karlene owned up to needing a refreshing bit of
cold water thrown on her by Dizzy, because she failed to sign out. Delicious
Afghani food was enjoyed by all – spicy but lovely – thank you hares and Smurf
who celebrated her birthday which was the day before.
Next week’s run is in
Possum’s words, ‘not a Possum run.’ There will be a medium and a long run. The
medium run took us 45 minutes walking at walky talky pace through a nice jungle
trail with another 20 minutes of open track to finish. The long run adds on
approximately another 3.7 km of easy to run on, open track, which front runners
should enjoy, but is only meant for those who can run
out.
NEXT RUN: MATAMATA
HARES: Sue/Possum
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