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A record breaking web!
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2008
We left Berri very late, about 11.30, we're in Loxton, only paddled 38km's today so a nice light day.
Beautiful conditions very nice with a gentle breeze, and glassy water. It's a bit warm up here, so the breeze was lovely and cooled us down as we went along.
Beautiful river around here between Berri and Loxton with a lot of Kangaroos.
Had some great blokes up on the cliffs today. They heard about me on the radio this morning (5RM) and wanted to donate but couldn't get on the internet so they put money in a beer bottle, put the lid back on and threw it into the river, where we picked it up and collected the money. It was really fantastic.
While we were paddling along today Patto suddenly said...."look at the spider web", and I looked up and saw a web that was easily bigger than a double sheet from a bed, infact I'd go as far as saying king size sheet. But it then went on for about 50 metres down the river. What we think is that hundreds and hundreds of small spiders are joining their webbs up together and making one enormous webb that then covers the sticky bushes up on the River bank and then go right up into the trees. These are webs straight out of Indiana Jones movies, and then we you look at the webbs close up, well as close as we could get, there were hundreds of spiders in them and it was the biggest spider web I've ever seen - 50 metres long and 4-5 metres wide.
I'm doing well, but not feeling the best..... becuase of the indulgences I've had in the last few days with all the BBQ's and breakfasts etc, my Crohn's has flaired up and is causing me a bit of grief, but it's being watched and managed closely and I'll have to watch my diet carefully in the next week to make sure it doesn't flair up any more. No need for anyone to worry as all it is doing at the moment is taking away a bit of my energy and it makes me be a lot flatter.
Other than that we had a fantasitc day, with no wind.
Off to kingston On Murray tomorrow, which I've been told is a great place, so I'm really looking forward to that!