Distance 2080 / 2195
Next town Murray Bridge
1 day behind schedule
A long day yet again with headwinds ever present. The scenery here is rather uninspiring, with levee banks covered in willows, cleared farmland behind and the odd rolling hill. If you hire one of the hundreds of houseboats in Mannum, don't go downstream!
I discretely camped on a patch of lawn in front of someone's shack last night. About 1am the irrigation system came on and the sprinkler head was about 2 metres from the tent. Sounded like machine gun fire on the tent! Everything got a thorough washing with river water for half an hour. Lesson learnt...
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