Monday, October 12, 2009

Day 12 (mile 158)


This morning I was again in an oar boat, thou this didn’t work out as the rest I thought it would. We were hit by amazing head winds and the paddle boat was barley moving. So we tied it to oar boat and we all paddled. This wasn’t quick moving but we did manage to move forward.

We then got to a place called Havasu Creek, which is an amazing aqua-marine colour caused by calcium in the water because it flows thou so much limestone.

We went on a walk up to some waterfalls at a place called Beaver falls. This is a 3.5 mile walk (each way) up relevantly flat mostly sandy path, with some very pretty views of the stream. None of this was too bad, except that as we only had limited time we had to do it very quickly (the words death march were banded about several times) At this point of the trip I wasn’t really up to this, and as it wasn’t all that hot I forgot about my water intake. Amazingly we made it and it was very pretty.

When we got to camp I wasn’t felling well and at dinner ( which have been universally excellent) I couldn’t keep anything down. I went to bed early (even by the standards of this trip) drank a whole lot of water and felt much better.

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