Another early rise as we all decided we would put our guns into rowing a boat pretty much as far as we could between us around the bays. I swam out to the boat to try and untie it to bring it in (thank you Malawi man who assisted me because I was cream-crackered).

It was a scorching day so some of us (excluding white Willy) had creamed up. I, of course, was topless and caught the sun but Will ended the day looking like the Pink Panther, or more like those pink wafers with white in the middle his shorts line).

We immediately realised that rowing the boat between us was quite hard work but we made it out to several bays where we snorkelled, seeing lots of fish, and also did lots of jumping off of rocks. One offshore rock was so slippy, I couldn't get up it despite my desperate efforts but Jack and Will managed to get up the top for a couple of dives. At some other rocks, my big gangly legs got me to some heights and I plunged myself into the water several times with no conviction whatsoever, diving like a cannonball.

Luckily we avoided some local kids who had tried to follow us (even though we must have rowed a few kilometres) and admired the views of villages, houses and mountains on the way back. We were shattered.

Jack and I went to town for some protein (chicken and egg with chips) and some well-earned cherry plum sobos (seriously debating trying to import the drink to the UK).

On the way back we bought 12 sobos/fanta/coke to go with vodka - a decent concoction! Dripping with sweat on the way back, I needed a dip in the lake, but some drunk guy at the lodge (a local) was telling me he wanted to bathe with me and come for a swim. He was insisting that I wait so he could join me. I was trying my utmost to escape but he kept calling! So I swam out to the platform to sit in the sun with a couple of girls to avoid him. They found it hilarious but I found it weird considering gays are illegal in Malawi and I don't know if he was gay or just uberfriendly!

Had to have a cheeky nap before our pre-drinks but when I woke, we had a phenomenal BBQ buffet. Cheesy spinach, potato salad, beef-on-a-stick, BBQ chicken, salad and battered aubergine thing (which is the only thing I refused to eat). Two big plates managed me well so I could continue with my vodka-sobos. Then had some cocktail (White Russian with milk, something and amaretto or baileys or something) as Will didn't like it.

Playing our card games with the punishments (which I mentioned in the previous day's blog), Shawn was worrying about seeing some girl he hooked up with in town and didn't want to come out. However, he hadn't realised but we had - that she was stood at our bar with her brother! hahahaha

He had to talk to her but eventually we ended up going out, I was crap at pool, Shawn was hounded by the girl, Will fell over on the way home and Jack tried to barter a taxi that we could share all the way back to Lilongwe for the next morning (6 hours away).

Jack had been using Shawn's phone to try and sort stuff but found out back at the lodge that someone had swapped the phones or sims around. Luckily, Shawn wasn't pissed at Jack as the phones are only cheap!

Oh, on the way down the hill into the town, walking in the darkness, Shawn almost trod on a huge spider (probably a wolf spider) which was fanged, hairy and very tarantula-esq. Shawn was in shoes but I was behind him with flip-flops thinking that that could have been nasty for my left peg!

Forgot to say - last night some drunk guy was doing all these weird black handshakes with us but Will kept egging him on to do them with me! The tit kept smashing my knuckle and I was tempted to knuckle something else!