Being a Forester and a Wildlifer, i spend most days out in the forest searching for new Sites of attraction. Although not an independent venture, i go out on the orders of the Forestry Commission here in Ekiti State, Nigeria. Am a corps member attached to the commission but unlike most of my fellow corps members, am enjoying my service year and most especially, my weekends.
During the week's working days, i spend time in the office writing my reports on the various sites i have visited over the weekends and partake in other official duties but during the weekends, i go practical or rather, we go practical because i go with a Biodiversity Survey Project Team.
We go out for Research Surveys and it involves occasional camping and hiking to add some fun to our work, like the saying goes, "All work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy".
And like i have stated in my previous post, we have to put together a whole lot of items, kits and kins in other to make sure we face no serious discomfort as we proceed.
These weekend we visited a couple of places, aside the Arinta waterfall, we made a stop at a section of the Yoruba hills Igbemo/Ire part.
This mountain has a whole lists of myths and legends wrapped around it and this one we mounted was said to be were the Yoruba god of Iron, Ogun descended from the sky down to earth.
Ascending this mountain is not as easy as it sounds due to the fact that it has some pretty steep level when close to the peak and some of the areas have very loosed soils which require the climber to move on all fours. At some point, you may feel you are risking too much but once on the peak, the wind of adventure once again blows across your sweaty face and your chest heaves with fulfillment and contentment.
Although the animals we saw were far off and i could not get a camera shot at them, the underlying landscape makes the climber feel giddy.
What a weekend!
Looking forward to more!