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Another milestone!

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Last real night of camping, after this there are a few nights of camping, but there will be a town next to us.  Tonight we cooked our last batch of rice with pasta sauce for the last time.  We had a bonus as well.  A local chap got a flat tire as he drove past us and we offered to help him out, but he didn't need help so we just gave him a beer, which he really appreciated.  He went home and his wife had cooked two chickens, so he brought one back for us!!!!!  It was beautiful and we threw it into the rice for dinner.

Lovely bloke, he brought back firewood for us as well. We're camping at Big Ben tonight, it's very popular and there's no wood anywhere.

Blowing an absolute gale, it's been very very windy all day, but thankfully 80% of the day the wind was going with us so that was a big help.  Gentle day, paddled about 40kms today.  But it's still blowing a gale and my tent is taking a pounding from the wind!!  At least it's a good tent and will stand up to the challenge. 

Had a great night at Balnchetwon last night.

I'm sleeping quite well in my tent, what it's been about 38 days now I think, so I'm really used to it.

We went through Swan Reach today, we grabbed lunch at the Swan Reach deli.

A good day in genereal.

After paddling an hour tomorrow morning I reach point 2,024, so that means I've paddled 2000km's.  Another milestone reached!!

Scottie.