Like the past 3 days, it was windy, but a lot less windy and wet... but for me, the wind made for much MUCH harder paddling through somewhat choppy water. My shoulders and neck were aching as well as my right hand (from gripping the paddle too hard). Dirk was fine (if you were wondering).
jUst outside MIldura. there is a lock - lock 11... but we didn't need to go through it as the water was so high, the wier was out. SO other paddlers, please don't go left through the lock, but go right (past the signs that say no swinners or boats past that point)!We stopped 10 km outside MIldura where the MIldara WInery was apparently located. It turned out there was a little park where a community of workers used to be... and where a foreign (Polish?) biologist/artist worked with the Nyah Nyah aboriginal tribe to categorize some newly discovered species of fish and other Australian animals. But the winery? Hmmmh. A lot of work for a lot of nothing. We hiked up a steep hill (which Dirk proclaimed to be a shortcut) - not easy in my flip flops (which had seen better days). The winery was just a huge place for mass-produced winers with no tastings and no tours. The cellar door had been closed for the past few years. Anyway, we walked around it to try and take the trail (rather than the shortcut down). It required a trek through a field in which every single variety of plant life had either thorns, burrs or some other form of scratchy, prickly part. Truly inhospitale greenery. I spent 10 minutes picking burrs from the bottoms of my flip flops before continuing.
We camped only a few kms from Wentworrth... which is where we are now... We have arrived and done our shopping at the IGA - the veggies and stuff that will go off (as well as stocked up on water). AM updating from the barmaid's laptop at the Crown Hotel's bar. WIll get off now and continue to camps site!
See you all again soon. Renmark is the next big town... . Maybe 5 or 6 days away.
jUst outside MIldura. there is a lock - lock 11... but we didn't need to go through it as the water was so high, the wier was out. SO other paddlers, please don't go left through the lock, but go right (past the signs that say no swinners or boats past that point)!We stopped 10 km outside MIldura where the MIldara WInery was apparently located. It turned out there was a little park where a community of workers used to be... and where a foreign (Polish?) biologist/artist worked with the Nyah Nyah aboriginal tribe to categorize some newly discovered species of fish and other Australian animals. But the winery? Hmmmh. A lot of work for a lot of nothing. We hiked up a steep hill (which Dirk proclaimed to be a shortcut) - not easy in my flip flops (which had seen better days). The winery was just a huge place for mass-produced winers with no tastings and no tours. The cellar door had been closed for the past few years. Anyway, we walked around it to try and take the trail (rather than the shortcut down). It required a trek through a field in which every single variety of plant life had either thorns, burrs or some other form of scratchy, prickly part. Truly inhospitale greenery. I spent 10 minutes picking burrs from the bottoms of my flip flops before continuing.
We camped only a few kms from Wentworrth... which is where we are now... We have arrived and done our shopping at the IGA - the veggies and stuff that will go off (as well as stocked up on water). AM updating from the barmaid's laptop at the Crown Hotel's bar. WIll get off now and continue to camps site!
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