I kept it short today – we liked and needed to go food shopping in Ceduna after the last foodshop was in Esperance!!! And I didn’t mind a shorter paddling day, too.

I was starting at 5.30 am in first light with no wind and not a ripple on the water, and ended in stiffeling heat already at 10 am. I was kind of cool on the water, keeping my shirt and hat wet all day. Greg was not extremely suffering either, as after some chores around and breaking camp around 8 am, he drove to Point James in the air conditioned car, and simply stayed in it with the engine and air condition running. But it didn’t work as well with a car not on the move.

We drove into Ceduna with an empty box of fruit and vegetables, as the fruit fly control wouldn’t let us pass in that direction. The last carrots, potatoes and apples were in no great shape either, and a bunch of Aboriginals were happy about the bag Greg gave to them in Denial Bay

We spent some nice hours in a climated food store – and kind of forgot about another *HOT* 50 degrees day, with hordes of black flies in the bush. We drove back to Point James for a remote campspot, as amazingly with locally bought fruits and veggies you were allowed to go back and forth through the control. We were planning to organize the food I’d need for a 14-days stint on my own in ziplocks, plus doing some office work.

But no way we could stand neither the heat nor the flies, arriving around 2pm. We gave up, and drove back to Ceduna to book into a campsite cabin with a kind of working climate control and NO flies. We needed some cool, fly free surrounding to work on the food, do some office work and to simply enjoy a bit of comfort.

This heat here was supposed to be a record heat since ever!

32.10 132.26 Point James 25 km 5.30 am to 10 am