.Day 78 - 12/8/07 - Viewmont to Past Windalle Steve's Report: Let's start by fessing up. Here is an e-mail from my brother Alan. He was the only one to correct the error on day 62 report. Where are all you English buffs? "Just thought I’d let you know I am still reading the website. Just on that too have to ask you what sort of a special word Kayak is. Because an Anagram it ain’t an anagram is a word rearrangement of another words letters. Kayak is an English version of an Inuit word. Perhaps the word you were looking for is palindrome A word that reads the same from front to back and back to front."
And check out this little gem from Terry Loos of the Aust Water Assoc: I'm sorry I didn't read Day 62 to pick up on KAYAK being a palindrome. I guess AWA is a palindrome. One of my favourites is GLENELG, on which beach you could make your Adelaide arrival at NOON, your progress being monitored on RADAR, perhaps arriving to a CIVIC reception to be greeted with a WOW by ELLE Macpherson, and with a Coopers REVIVER acknowledging that you've done the DEED and the SAGA'S at an end. Now for Sunday. The story is all in the pictures. It was a great day with lots and lots of pelicans and shags. The water was clear most of the way and it would be a great place to have houseboats for hire. You will see that I don't mind a short cut if I can find one. The first was great. The second was a bloody disaster. I ran into cracks 15cm wide and 30cm deep. There was no water at all and in the end I had to get up on a levee bank to get flat ground. Then I found a road and then Jonathan found me. Of course I could have gone back the way I had come but I am a bit too stubborn to take backward steps. It all worked out OK in the end but where the map showed a lake there is no lake, just the Darling continuing on its winding way. That was a psychological blow at the time but you quickly get over it.e Jonathan's Report: It was an early start this morning. Steve was on the water before 8:00am to get as close to Menindee as he could. The plan was to rendezvous at Windalle at 2:00 where he would enter Lake Wetherell shown on our maps and be able to paddle in a straight line towards Menindee. We met at Windalle at 2:00 as planned only to find there was no lake. Just the continuation of the very winding Darling River. Steve paddled a few kilometres past the meeting point where he then decided to land the kayak and call it a day. It was 4:00pm at this point so the only destination on Steve’s mind was the pub. After a refreshing beer at the local, we drove to the campsite which I had set up during Steve’s morning paddle. It is back to the pub for dinner tonight with the intention of paddling into Menindee tomorrow (fingers crossed).e