Rwanda October 20

Others travelled along the shoreline on a motorized skiff that made stop at a natural hot spring that had water flowing into the lake at a temperature of around 80 - 90 degrees.

One of us even availed themselves of the medicinal attributes of the healing waters by having the hot spring waters massaged onto his ailing leg by a local.
Around noon we packed up all our belongings and climbed back on the bus for our return to Kigali. We will have supper at Mesa Fresh (the Mexican restaurant that we all enjoyed so much on the Friday before at the beginning of our Gorilla trek weekend) and then drive on to Gashora for the start of our second week of work at the Covaga Innovation Center. We are all eager to see the stage to which the local workers have brought the project during our absence on Friday afternoon. We have also all been talking about the Gorilla portion of our weekend and have been sharing some of our videos and pictures. I have attached a few at this time but we will upload many more once we are back in a location where the internet connection is a little better.

Rick
Hi this is Rick Heney from Kamloops filling in for our good friend Maryanne who had to return to the real world and her job in Canada a week earlier than the remainder of our DWC group. Maryanne, we wish you a safe and quick return home and I will do my best to continue the blog reports to the standards you have set. Even though I will not come close to matching you I will try.
We woke this morning on the shore of Lake Kivu in north west Rwanda which is close to the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The border between the two countries runs through the lake. It is a beautiful setting with rolling hills and cultivated fields as far as the eye can see along the shore of the lake. We were all able to breakfast with Maryanne and say our goodbyes before she left for the airport at 8:30 that morning. (At around 1:00 we received a text that she had arrived at the airport in time for her 3:00 flight.
The rest of us spent the time soaking in the sun or going for walks or boat rides. A few were even brave enough to try their hands at paddling a kind of dug out canoe over to the island that was about 800 meters offshore in front of the hotel.