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
Pelicans flying low over the water
Steve getting ready to head off for the day
Steve entering the water
Steve Heading off for the day
A pelican on the Darling
Steve looking for the water
Steve finding some water
Lunch tucked out of the wind. The logs were
spaced to be comfortable enough to sit on
The river is to the right of the dead tree
but there may be a short cut to the left
That's the dead tree in the background,
but I am still keen on the shortcut
Still lookin' good
Yep, save over half an hour going
around that big loop
