Outdoor activities during 1998

Camping 6-10 Feb 1998 at Il-Maqluba, Qrendi.  Me (on the right) and Steve had just finished our muddy camp oven, and we were ready to start cooking!	Another camping in 1998, from 9 to 12 April this time near the Red Tower, Mellieha.  I had just bought a very large camo net and I wanted to try it out...  left picture showing me under the camo net, middle picture between a couple of  friends and right a group photo.  L-R: Jonathan, Duncan, Stefan, myself, Diane
Photos taken from a trekking activity on 26/27 June while Malta was struck down by a terrible heatwave!  We are crazy!  First photo from the left I am with Duncan, in the second photo photo with Stefan, on the first break at Chadwick Lakes after some walking.   Third photo Stefan and myself relaxing on the ferry boat on the way to Gozo.   We had covered more than 40km by now.  And last photo shows me wearing a very worried expression.  Hitting upon the tower on the way to Mgarr ix Xini we decided to have a break and shelter from the beating merciless sun!  My feet were blistered, but more worrying than that was the scortching heat.  All 3 of us were affected by it.  We had planned to trek about 150km in 2 days.  after about 60km in just under 24 hours we had to accept our failure due to the excessive sun.   Later we came to know that we were walking in temperatures in excess of 43 degrees Celsius!
Camping 5 to 7 Nov 1998 at Red Tower grounds, Mellieha.  Left photo shows me with the tent I still used (basically an Army poncho suspeneded on ropes) and right me cooking MREs (Meals Ready to Eat		The finishing of a long weary night hike on 13 March 1998.  Top-bottom: Duncan., Stefan, myself.  We started from Siggiewi till Mgarr and only us three managed to do it on foot, the others all rode the last part in the back of a truck!	Trekking activity between me and Stefan on 20-22 March 1998.  Our goal: 200km in just over 48 hours.  Here after some hours trekking passing through the village of Madliena
We spent the second night in Maqluba.  We had done over 130km in 40 hours	After the 30 minute trip by ship from Gozo to Malta we were ready to continue our next leg.  We had spent all night trekking and we had already trekked about 80km in some 16 hours	Waiting for the passengers to get off the ship so we can board and cross the maltese channel.  The second day of our activity, approx 16 hours after we started