19 March 2010
274251kms, 13:45, 15.5°C and not a cloud in the the sky. Off to Alexandra so that Mike can get his tooth fixed before heading off to Poolburn for the weekend. 15:08 - leaving Alex, with extra supplies on board. Mike stopped at The Fridge to get some pepperoni (I'd forgotten to pack it, vital ingredient for breakfast!) and we ended up buying some delicious smoked mussels, and yummy herb and garlic mussels. So seafood feast for tea tonight, as I spent this morning making seafood chowder to bring with us. 16:35 - at Poolburn, after stopping for a jug at Blacks. Glorious afternoon - no wind, warm and just perfect. Threw some worms in and pretty much sat and watched them whilst enjoying the weather and environment. No fish, but lovely afternoon nonetheless. Had tea and bed at 21:30.
20 March 2010
Up at 07:40 (which, after Mike being on mornings all this week, felt like a decent sleep-in!) and 10°C. Had brekkie - bacon, eggs, mushrooms and pepperoni) and showers. Seeing as there are still no fish, and Mike's lost a couple of rigs getting snagged, and it's still bloody cold (11°C), trying to rain and windy we have decided to go down the hill - it's supposed to be 25°C down below and this is just too miserable. And sure enough, definitely warmer in the valley. Stopped at 2nd Galloway thinking we might stay the night there, but decided against it for 2 reasons: 1) pretty much no water in the river and 2) it sticks like a cow paddock - YUCK! (Too much dairy farming upstream?!?!?) So headed home, thinking we'd have a quick read of the paper and we'd then decide where, if anywhere, we were going. We had just unlocked the door and rolled a smoke when Pete Glover arrived on his bike, so sat and talked to him for a couple of hours - warm outside, so when he left we decided we'd go to just above Jackson's for the night. Got there at 15:33. Bit of a NW wind blowing, but not too bad and still nice and warm right through the evening. Just relaxed for rest of day, did put some worms in amongst the massive weed bed that has now formed in the little bay - but only thing we caught was weed! Wind did get up for a while, but dropped right back at dusk. Played cards and had left-overs for tea before going to bed at 21:30. Marielle read for a while - big mistake, because when I went to turn the light off, I realised that hundreds and hundreds of little sandfly (not bitey ones, thank god!) type creatures had come in through the mesh - and around the light was just black! Sprayed them, and had a good night's sleep!
21 March 2010
Up at 07:40 - 13°C, calm and cloudy. Headed home at 08:50 and got home at 09:04 - 274399kms. No photo's this trip - we have heaps of Poolburn and we've been to Jackson's before, so no point in doubling everything up!
