Mr Hughes was a great outdoor person ,and every summer he would take all the scottish boys to relli for a 5 day camping trip .And boy those days we didnt have rugsacks with padding on the straps like we have nowdays .
He made us use the quilt mattress as bags ( roled up ) then he tied it with coconut string or we used rope that really hurt us very badly especially if your going to walk all the way down to relli .
I remember when he wasnt looking we used to roll the so called bags made out of our bedding down the khud . He shouted if he ever saw us doing it .Man it was painful but we enjoyed camping with him .
Once we got to the camping ground near the river .we opened up the bags and had to find bamboos to make tents .we had no tent covers or tent/camping real gear .We used our bed sheets as tents and if it rained we used the makentosh .
The best part was every nite for 5 days 2 guys had to keep nite toh . Man and that was the scariest part ,because at nite we could see jackals /hynas just a few feet away from our tents .
One nite I had to keep toh with this guy Clinton Sullivan and while we were sitting next to the fire ,talking a big hyna came and was sniffing the pots and pans .you should have seen his face from black it turned blue and he shat in his pants . I couldnt move because I was so scared ,just then one guy in the tent farted so loud that the hyna gave a cry ,you should have seen all the buggers ,half naked chasing the hyna ,Micheal conway was running in all directions and landed up in the basti ,where the villagers thought he was a thief ,he ran for his life and just couldnt sleep the whole nite .
The next day ,we take of to have a swim in the river we see thaje naked in the river ,Micheal conway starts to pelt bhutts thinking he was a villager who chased him last night ,poor thaje was all bungged up and micheal conway had to wash the dishes for the next 2 days .....hehehehe
