1124 kilometres from the mouth  – same as yesterday.  Rest and planning day.

Booked the Euston lock for 10 am tomorrow. And then it will be 3 or 4 nights on the river until Mildura. 

Very pleasant breakfast on the grass next to the water.  2 course meal.  Oats and eggs and vegetables. 
Went to the office to sort my bill out and asked for a hardware store.  Got a few questions and the manager ended up making the bracket I needed for the wheels with his bandsaw.  It’s now high enough out of the water when I load up tomorrow.

There is  something I don’t understand about ants.  One grabbed an oat flake from the ground and took off over the grass.  I watched him/her for about 30 minutes trashing though the blades of grass hauling this huge lump of food.  Up one and down another blade.  Always heading in a perfect straight line.  When it got to a bare patch of ground it started  getting harassed by a bigger ant but still persisted in the same straight line.  Then it got to where I thought was nothing and it walked this way and that thinking I know it’s here somewhere.  Then it found it, a small hole.  Backed down it….  problem,  the oat flake won’t fit in the hole.  It jammed it in the top and later I saw that it was gone.  How did it know the bearing back to home?  It knew the bearing but not the exact spot because it looked for the exact spot when it got there.  We don’t need gps,  all we need is an ant  brain.

Probably limited phone reception over the next few days.