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The Senqu Orange Gariep Expedition Journal - River is low...
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Day 3 of the tug and pull continued, starting to get used to the deal. Sometimes you get water and you go boating, we had little and the only way to get back ´home´ for us is to drag our gear down the river. At an average speed of a 1km/h you get to know your surroundings quite well. Is actually handy for documenting, as you get to see everything versus whizzing past through on white water.
An older fellow came down to the river, to chat to me. We were about a metre from each other and he is shouting at me in Sotho with waving arms and body movement. I shout back at him in English that i dont understand him, this sets him off to raise his voice even louder. He wasnt mad or crazy, but he talked real loud. I had to politely indicate with sign language that i gotta to keep moving. I dont mind chatting to people along the way, but i was not gonna shout at this fellow in the wilderness even if we understood each other.
Setting up camp this evening as the weather brews and threatens to rain gets us thinking and talking and dreaming of actually getting to kayak this classy section of river.
-Rob