Happy anniversary Janice. 😘
Up early and ready to go at sunrise. It is interesting to see the colours that the sky goes through before, and then at sunrise. We hit the water just as the brilliant red bounces off the clouds, this part of the sunrise is the most spectacular but only lasts for a couple of minutes.
A nice, but warm morning as we paddle toward lock 9. After an hour we get to the lock and before long we are having a chat with the lock master as he pulls the plug out of the bath tub. The sign on the lock shows river levels during the various floods and how far under water the lock goes. Today they are letting through about 2 megalitres off water, during the 1956 flood 350 megalitres a day were going past this point.
We leave the lock for a day similar to yesterday. Not much is changing at the moment. Our aim is to get to lock 8 before it closes at 4pm. The day is very hot and gets above 40 again. Looks like it will stay hot until the weekend. We tick over the kilometres and by 3pm we reach lock 8. Another quick decent as we again chat to the lock master. We met his sister at the caravan park in Mildura. Not much is happening on the river, we see 5 people all day, 3 of them work at the locks. We are their first customers for 3 days.
We paddle a bit further before pulling up on a rare sand bar for the night. The afternoon and evening is very hot. We spend our time sitting in the river, sleeping in the shade or purifying water. It seems like days before the sun sinks behind the trees to give us some relief.
Tinky throughs the line in again. This time he is successful and pulls in a big one. Unfortunately it is an old turtle.
Looks like another hot night before we do it all again tomorrow.
Sunrise
Just another old paddle steamer parked at lock 8.
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