admin's blog

I know I promised musings on industry, but instead I’m going to talk about food. That’s because after paddling 60k today, it seems far more crucial. I'd been so good too - holding myself back to a nice easy 30k a day, easing into it slowly, but the summer weather pattern for most of the East coast is a few days of calm, a Nor-Easter strengthening over a few days, and then the Southerly buster comes through. Today was the strong northerly, so after reaching Kiama at Lunchtime I thought I’d most of it and get to Culburra beach. Then I misjudged the distances and ended up in Currarong instead, about 15ks further. Oops - so much for navigation by sight.

Early start today, pulling out in mist and light rain. The weather soon cleared, and on one of those rare days without the slightest breath of wind, the ocean become a rippling mirror of the sky - glorious. Please remind me of this on Sunday when the Southerlies are forecast to hit hard.

Reached Wollongong at midday and Lorelei from the Mercury was there to write her third article on the trip. The Mercury is doing regular coverage down the South Coast, allowing us to explore some of the deeper issues. Today we were discussing appropriate valuation of environmental resources, using as a parallel the whales that used to frolic in the Derwent River but were slaughtered in two decades between 1840 and 1860 - the ultimate unsustainable industry. I've written a paper about it which I'll post to the website soon.