.Day
24
-
19/6/07
-
Into
Surat
Bruce's
Report:
I
dropped
Steve
out
on
the
road
early
and
spent
the
morning
downloading
and
saving
film
while
Kerrie
went
to
the
school
to
arrange
a
visit
for
tomorrow.
Steve
surprised
us
all
by
arriving
at
the
campsite
earlier
than
expected
after
walking
25
kms
into
town.
After
a
tour
of
the
local
museum
we
filmed
Steve
doing
a
piece
de
camera
on
the
riverbank.
The
campers
on
the
far
bank
had
been
expecting
him
to
paddle
in
so
there
was
some
good
natured
banter
about
"wimps"
and
"losers"
until
we
decided
to
throw
him
in
the
kayak
for
the
benefit
of
the
spectators.
We
had
great
fun
especially
when
Fay
Jackson
nearly
ended
up
in
the
river
handing
Steve
a
beer
for
his
trouble.
Steve
took
the
opportunity
to
paddle
to
the
weir
and
checked
out
the
situation
for
the
next
day.
It
was
decided
there
was
not
enough
water
so
we
went
to
the
pub
for
dinner
and
chatted
with
some
lovely
people.
Steve's
Report:
Tomorrow
we
are
presenting
at
the
Surat
School
at
9.00am.
Then
it
is
off
towards
St
George.
It
was
bitterly
cold
today
with
a
cold
south
westerly
wind
blowing.
I
thought
today
was
going
to
be
easy
with
only
25km
to
walk.
Life
never
works
out
the
same
as
you
think
though
and
I
found
out
how
tough
it
was
walking
up
hills
about
5km
long
against
a
strong
headwind.
It
is
amazing
the
difference
trees
make
to
the
wind.
Even
at
20m
-
50m
apart
the
amount
of
wind
is
much
less
than
on
exposed
plains.
Because
I
arrived
at
Surat
around
2.00pm
there
was
time
to
look
at
the
museum
and
to
put
on
a
show
on
the
weir
for
the
grey
nomads.
This
was
fun
and
so
I
paddled
down
to
the
weir
for
a
look.
There
seemed
to
be
a
good
flow
over
it
but
when
we
went
about
500m
downstream
we
could
see
that
the
Ballonne
was
not
running
with
enough
water
to
paddle.
The
achilles
seems
to
be
holding
up
and
the
infection
in
my
index
finger
seems
to
be
settling
down
so
life
is
good.
(Just
very
cold)
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| Bruce
spends
lots
of
time
on
the
computer |
Fay
Jackson
shouts
Steve
a
beer
on
the
Surat
weir |
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Satellite
Map |