A hot night turns into a cool morning so at 6:15 I crawl out from under my sleeping bag to great another day. Even though the kookaburras are laughing it is still dark. Sarg and Thomo are up using their head torches. We have noticed the sun coming up later each day as we head west and February gets older.
I hear "happy Valentine's Day" as I see EJ giving Tinky some flowers, I ask no questions.
We pack up as usual, however we plan to leave a bit later as we have an appointment with Macca at 7:30. EJ and Thomo both spoke. Following this we haul the boats back to the water and after a chat with done well wishers, they listened to Macca, we set off.
The morning paddle is fantastic. It is cool, best it has been for a week, and the river is quit quick because in this section it is quite narrow. As we go down the river the volume of water we paddle on is becoming less. This is because of all the water being used for irrigation and pushed off into different channels. Not much more can be taken out before the river will stop.
We have s quick morning with only a couple of stops. Our aim is to visit Thomo's relatives got lunch 28km down stream of Barham. Karen and Donna put on a good country lunch and we all enjoyed the food, chat and hospitality. It was all to soon before we scrambled back down the bank to put boats.
The fast flowing river continued to Murrabit, the start of day 5 of the Murray Marathon. As we paddle under the bridge we all relive past glories. The river now widens and slows again. We spend the rest of he afternoon getting to a campsite which gives us less than 60km tomorrow to get to Swan Hill.
We are always looking for milestones to celebrate. Today we went below 1500km to go, passed 700kms from Albury and we are now one third of the way to the mouth. Another milestone was that my shoulders do not hurt for the first hour as they have done for the last two weeks.
Another great campsite next the river. It just never ends. One pleasure I do get is to lay in bed looking up at the amazing stars each night.
The narrower river down stream of Barham
Perfect. A camp site that already has a loo. No digging holes tonight. Even has paper
Another sunset to watch.
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