Cracking eggs in space.

French Guyana, here I'm. The roads between Brazil and FG is dirt roads so we were all prepared for some digging if we would get duck somewhere. We were only stuck once, or the trucks before us was stuck which made us wait until someone could pull it up the hill. Tree hours of waiting with poring rain, lacy brazilians and mud everywhere.. But we had fun, as usual. The road had one of the best views of the jungle so far. It was on both sides of and thick. You couldn't see anything through it and some rivers coming up to. I was just sitting paralyzed watching the view. Crossed the river and entered French Guyana, road less traveled, and arrived late in the evening at the capital Cayenne.  Got the visas for Suriname which cost me 42€ and it's the only visa I need for South America. Anyway, cayenne was a small like the rest of the country but I did like it. A huge difference compared to brazil. It's not just very very expensive but so much Europe and yeah French of course. You could actually walk around without worrying.  None of us wanted to spend some days in the city so we left further north where we stayed for a night watching turtles laying eggs on the beach. The first turtle I spotted was a "normal" kind and she tooled 2,5 hours to lay her eggs and go back into there water. Turned out to be very long but we watched her all the way trou. Loved to sitting on the beach, watching those massive turtles doing there crazy sound trying to scope the sand over the eggs. We spotted some leatherbacks to, the biggest turtles. Tried to found out how big they are so I laid down close to it and the first one was in my size around 1,65 meters and the biggest we saw must have been something like 1.85m. They can get a weight up to 900kg. They way there looking makes me think of dinosaurs.  No tourists, big moon and a lot of turtles. Didn't get back until half two. Unlucky you can't take pictures with flash because it scares them so I don't have any pictures but I keep it in my memories. This night we did our camping in the garden to some locals that invited us. Had a wonderful night dancing samba and drinking to strong drinks. Hit the space center ESA in Kouru this morning and went on a tour around the area. Cool to see a real space center where they send up satellites for european countries. The reason why they have it in FG is because it's on the equator and the speed of earth gives the rockets extra power to lift so its using one/third of fuel than normal and they also have the power to send heavier satellites. Maximum weight for the satellites is 10tons, that's only 1% of the total weight. 90% is fuel and the last 9% is engine etc. It's using 200 tons of fuel in two minutes and that's when the two boosters on the side is falling of back in the sea. At 36.000 km from earth is our biggest satellites and they last up to 15 years. We been sending over 4000 satellites into space and only 10% is working so right now they're trying to find a way to take them back.  If something would go wrong and the rocket will explode it's gonna make hole in a area of 1km.  South Africa where gonna send one satellite up last Friday but something with the Vulcan engine didn't work. The rocket stopped and they are gonna try again next Friday.

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