Day 6: Milestone Markers

So how am I charting our progress? We are watching the river markers. Mostly, they are posted to trees alongside the river... but in Lake Mulwala, they were on trees in the middle of the lake! This one is not the significant one... it was the next marker we spotted, "1998". This was significant as it marked that we had paddled 200 km! On this, the 6th day, we didn't travel too far as paddling on the wide open lake was not easy. The water was extremely choppy and we were paddling against the wind that was plowing us backwards each time we stopped paddling. We only did about 20 km (I expect we are somewhere around 1988 now).
In any case, it was a day of a lot of firsts. We woke up to find shrimp and yabbies in our trap and tasted our first river yabbies. It was also our first lake... and our first portage. We had to cross a weir to get to the next portion of the river and had to remove the kayaks from the lake, pack up all the stuff inside the kayaks and leapfrog carry (does that make sense) the canoes about 1km to the campground in Yarrawonga. Luckily, a lady from the information center, Pamela, offered to drop off our bags for us at the campground around 5 (after work).
We had a great dinner at Yarrawonga hotel that evening whil I recharged my camera. More pictures for this day coming later.