Woke up after a long night of sore feet to another blown out day. Decided, if we were going to go on, we had to have our feet (particularly Ryan's) checked out by a doctor.
walked over to the near-by Coorong Wilderness Lodge to enquire about transport into Meningie. The staff were very helpful and friendly and even offered us a lift into Meningie for us to been seen by the doctor... we accepted the generous offer and were chauffeur driven into the hospital where the kind nurses took care of Ryan's infected foot.
He was prescribed some anti-biotics and half an hour later Garry decided to go and get his foot seen to as well.
After getting back to the lodge we had a chat with George (the lodge owner) about Ngarrindjeri ways of life, a very knowledgable guy on aspects of the Coorong and the tradition of the local Aboriginal people and their bush tucker.
A very lovely spot to stay for anyone interested. They have nice cabins overlooking the Coorong and the ocean and camping and backpacker style huts too. They do kayak tours and bush walks. After our chat we returned to camp and discussed our plans for the next days for our voyage.
Our camp site is very exposed to the wind and sun so we are keen to move on after our second night in this spot.
Water is VERY salty and is full of millions of briney shrimp. We are surrounded by dry salt pans. And the water is very shallow- a foot or less except in a very hard to navigate channel which seems to be about 3 foot deep, and 2 foot wide. Why we're going all imperial measurements I'm not sure?
We plan to leave early tomorrow morning hoping for flat water, a light northerly breeze and the anti-biotics to kick in by then of course!
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