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SA Water conditions
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2008
Day 2 into the wilderness. I'd like to say that we're no where, but we're not even there!
Paddle 66km's today, have been paddling and went through 2 locks, 8 and 9. It was a long hard day. We paddled for 11 hours!!
We're camped by a swamp so the mosquitos are around and there's alot of noise from the frogs and crickets and bugs etc. It's actually quite beautiful.
The water below lock 8 is horrible and full of algae, is stagnant and there's no water, it seems to have been very very porely managed. It seems the closer we get to SA the worse the water is. Thanks to our neighbours the water at the top is beautiful. NSW currently on a 90% water allocation, Queensland on 24% and SA on about 4% I think. There's plenty of water there, but it all seems to be being used elsewhere.
Other than that things are great, we're cooking some pasta in the dark, and then going to bed to be ready for another long paddle tomorrow!
Scottie.