I was happy I didn’t need to pull into Warruwi on Goulburn Island, although David Winkworth already organized a local contact to look after me. But it would mean a detour, and too early to stop already for the night. I’d rather stick to the mainland and was heading for White Point, but decided turning around the corner was too far offcourse as well. 55 km wasenough for that day in the scheduled plan. So I stayed right across Goulburn Island on the mainland, an easy beach with nothing special.

Or yes, I had a seasand scrub and a short swim again, the water looked so inviting croc and shark free… Hooked on the internet again for e-mails in the very early morning at 4am, couldn’t sleep anymore, but at night I am simply too tired and rather do some phone calls.

Text message from Freya via satellite phone:

11.41 133.20 Macquarie Strait. 55 km,  7:00 am to 5:30 pm nothing special on this day…no need to go into Goulburn Island, got plenty of water refilled on North East Point by an Aboriginal teacher’s family driving by in a car and getting it from Maningrida – a godsend!

Note from Chris Cunningham:

If you’re interested in Freya’s cumulative milage log, you’ll find it here on her web site under the “Australia” tab. From there go to “Please read my trip report!” and then to the “Trip dates table.” That link will download an Excel spread sheet. 

Today Freya is on day 116, with 94 days of paddling. She has covered 5565 kilometers (3457 statute miles) with an average of 59.20 km (36.77 miles) per paddling day. The average distance covered per day overall is 47.97 km (29.80 miles). 

By comparison, in 1982, after 116 days Paul Caffyn had covered 4820 kilometers (2994 miles). By his 131st day he had logged 94 paddling days and had covered 5474 km (3400 miles), averaging 58.2 km (36.2 miles) per paddling day, 41.8 km (26.0 miles) per day overall.