Last night was wet and a little windy.  Steve warned me about storms but luckily were pretty tame in this part of the world.  The storms bought a change with gusty winds.  Packed and left as early as possible hoping to catch some of the wind.  The best was 12k in the downward reaches.  Into the wind was a struggle sometimes but the thought of the downhill run kept me going. 
Day before yesterday came across a group of people in Canadian canoes. They were travelling from Yarrawonga to Cobram.  Not long after setting off I came across them again and stopped for a chat.  They were very skilled at judging the current flow and used it to  great effect. 

Food: I have been sticking to the 5 days eating and two fast days.  Thursday and Sunday are the fast days.  So today is a fast day and nothing all day.  Don’t ask me where the energy comes from but I had little problem putting in the days paddle. On the eating days I have been having a egg white protein or lentils in a curry with rice and vegetables if I have them.  Breakfast is oats and soy milk powder.  Breaks during the day are nuts and dates and peanut butter sandwich if the bread hasn’t run out.  I cook with river water.  This should be fine as rice and lentils etc take a while to cook.  When I hit a town it’s eggs.  Scrambled mostly.
Water: I stared with 22 litres and have reduced that to about 15. Tonight I am boiling river water to replace my 6 litre drinking supply.  This has lasted 3 days.  I’ll see how the boiled river water goes and might ditch some more down to about 10 maybe.
Batteries: It took me ages to figure out how best to manage the devices. So I went with a heap of disposable batteries.  I wasn’t sure how the gps was going to go as well so I have a pile of laminated maps.  The gps ran it’s first set of lithium batteries out this morning.  So constant use for 4 days.  Alkaline usually don’t make a day.  I hated the gps at first but it’s pretty much indispensable now.  I have one more set of lithium and then a heap of alkaline to use.  It’s a garmin and I flick between the map and the trip meter which is what you see in the photo every day.