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I've camped on rocks before this. I've camped on mud. I've camped on snow and ice. I've camped on logs. But I've never camped IN a waterfall before. | I've camped on rocks before this. I've camped on mud. I've camped on snow and ice. I've camped on logs. But I've never camped IN a waterfall before. | ||
- | Breakfast: Hot food: Cheerful banter! Smiling faces!? Wet, heavy packs, and on the track again and off for The Castle. Silly, isn't it? | + | Breakfast: Hot food! Cheerful banter! Smiling faces!? Wet, heavy packs, and on the track again and off for The Castle. Silly, isn't it? |
Over lunch we discuss how we should negotiate this section of the route next time. Silly, isn't it? or is it? | Over lunch we discuss how we should negotiate this section of the route next time. Silly, isn't it? or is it? | ||
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There was considerable consternation in the Leyden-Cosgrove tent a couple of times, but the night continued wet and windy until about 2 a m. when a bright light | There was considerable consternation in the Leyden-Cosgrove tent a couple of times, but the night continued wet and windy until about 2 a m. when a bright light | ||
- | Shining | + | shining |
under the grass but the tent wasn't letting any rain through. | under the grass but the tent wasn't letting any rain through. | ||
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To while away the hours until dawn we discussed this and that - women in our lives, the possible difficulty in ascending the rock face of the fissure later in | To while away the hours until dawn we discussed this and that - women in our lives, the possible difficulty in ascending the rock face of the fissure later in | ||
the morning and whether we should go on to the Clyde River or return along the | the morning and whether we should go on to the Clyde River or return along the | ||
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I think perhaps that we did not suffer as much as some that night. In fact now that I look back on it from the comfort of my home some five weeks later I can't help feeling that I may have been exaggerating a little about our discomfort. Of course we got wet, or at least Pam and I did. Pam had found herself the cutest little hip | I think perhaps that we did not suffer as much as some that night. In fact now that I look back on it from the comfort of my home some five weeks later I can't help feeling that I may have been exaggerating a little about our discomfort. Of course we got wet, or at least Pam and I did. Pam had found herself the cutest little hip | ||
hole earlier in the evening but as it soon turned itself into a hip bath it had to be | hole earlier in the evening but as it soon turned itself into a hip bath it had to be | ||
- | vacated, although by then it was too late. Also the wind changed through the night and blew in on her. As far myself I only got my dry bed sox wet and my shoulders where the water seeped through the groundsheet, | + | vacated, although by then it was too late. Also the wind changed through the night and blew in on her. As for myself I only got my dry bed sox wet and my shoulders where the water seeped through the groundsheet, |
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- | Although the night seemed long we did sleep a little and in our waking moments were entertained by snippets of conversation coming from David' | + | Although the night seemed long we did sleep a little and in our waking moments were entertained by snippets of conversation coming from David' |
And so the night at last became day and after a hearty breakfast of one half apple, one half orange, one chocolate-coated biscuit each and the promise of a lolly later, we began one of the longest walking days I can remember. | And so the night at last became day and after a hearty breakfast of one half apple, one half orange, one chocolate-coated biscuit each and the promise of a lolly later, we began one of the longest walking days I can remember. | ||
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