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.
Anyway, back to the food, we’re sitting in the carpark, on the concrete under a streetlight, and Emi is cooking up a feast of seafood donated by Steve from the Seafood shop on Kiama harbour, with Tiramisu, ice-cream an tea for desert from the Christy at the café here in Currarong. It seems every second person we meet either saw the news on Tuesday or has read about the trip in the local papers, and everyone is going out of their way to help. I’m so grateful – the support is amazing. I’m going to be hurting tomorrow, but only a short trip to Jervis, where I’m due for a rest day, and perhaps a more coherent blog ... Sim