Day 11 - Evening

Hi people
We had a lovely morning of nice still conditions. Dead flat, sun shining, hooked up the boats together, music playing - all good - oily water. A little trouble locating the channel leaving camp, but within an hour or so once entering the Coorong Lagoon (the final leg of the journey), depth was consistently approx 2 foot, which is plenty for us. It all seemed great and we were hoping for a northerly breeze in the afternoon and talked of reaching the end by the end of the day. Unfortunately, it turned southerly and dropped our speed from approx 3km/hr to below 1 at approx 1pm. It got got very choppy and the kayak that was being used as a makeshift third hull on the Kaczkowski cat became swamped with water faster than it could be bailed and we had to cut it loose. Managed to save it though and towed it to shore, where we spent the afternoon trying to keep cool and hoping for the wind to abate. It didn't, so we are currently camped on the beach. A nice spot - a large 100m sandy/salt crust beach from the water to the dune's edge. Beautiful clear skies. Vegetation seems a lot more dense up this far and possibly greener. Also there are no bombies to watch out for, which makes for much more relaxing travel. More rocky reef outcroppings though - but they are easier to spot. So far we've travelled for approx 95km, which has taken approx 50 hours. Going to make a very early start to try and finish our journey tomorrow. A long shower is definitely on the wish-list.