1630 Kilometres from the mouth. Paddled 538 kilometres @ 44 per day. Roughly 40 days to go. 18th April is the target. Will review in a week.
Tough day. No wind, no current and a long weekend (lots of ski boats).
Set off to get to Deep Creek marina to get supplies. Banks crowded with campers. Arrived at Deep Creek marina to find the shop was closed and had been for ages. The marina was jammed packed with houseboats.
Perricotta was the next stop and a festival was about to start. This is a special place. There is a restaurant that overlooks a particularly beautiful bend in the river. My boat was a bit at risk on the steep bank from the wake boats. So headed off.
I got better at handling the boat wakes after a while. The Kayak went straight through some of the waves with the whole boat awash especially if I got caught too close to a shallow area. If I didn’t have the boat prepared for sea conditions I would have been swimming.
I rang the caravan park earlier in the day to see if they had a site and then at about 5:30 when I knew I was going to make it.
Arrived at the weir at 7:30. Think I left at about 8:30 am.
Good caravan park with great service. Had my first and only beer in a very long time with my fellow campers.
pdhansenhansen 
Hi Peter , Sounds like a great place, I have never been to torrumberry. How did it go with the locks, was it a bit fast on the downstream side? A beer sounds good, seem to be making a few friends along the way which is great, always better if you can share the experience. How far is swan hill from tonight’s spot? (barham). Keep it up, I think you are thru the hardest part now, you have it all down pat, getting fitter, and at one with the “beast”
cheers Rob 0414 399 954
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Not sure about Swan Hill I’ll look tomorrow. It was faster below the weir. Very turbulent near Barham for some reason. The lock was fun. I hung onto a ladder and walked down it with my hand.
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