One advantage of Georgetown is that it is quite easy to get out into the jungle, where we spent the Easter weekend at a resort called Arrowpoint connected with an Indian village. We managed to get in a variety of activities, kayaking, trekking, swimming, birdwatching etc - though all you really had to do was sit on the balcony and wait for dozens of macaws to fly past. Still, we did more walking than most of their visitors, I think - Penny needs to keep up her fitness levels for Yosemite in May. On one of the walks you encounter a crashed plane in the jungle - rather worrying as it looked like all the small planes we have been flying on in Guyana.
We were back in Georgetown for Easter Monday, when the custom is to fly kites from the sea-wall, with competitions for the biggest, highest etc. We even flew a small one ourselves (out of competition) which we'd got as a free gift one day at the shops.
But the boldest initiative was this weekend when Penny took the plunge and had a haircut, accompanied by our friend Margaret as her expert adviser - no photos of the result, I fear but you could call it a reasonable success!
