Day 10(Mon18Jan)

Ivan & Terri Beard offered some space to Stanley this morning... This meant we could cover more in a day, with out our heavy packs. It was beautiful, some roadside views: lovely sights on both the left, & right, coming closer to the turn off to Boat-Harbour beach.

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(We had the chance to stop here, or move on and try to make it to North Point. Since people like Ivan & Terri offered to help, we decided to press on. Maybe another time for Boat Harbour beach.)

When we could go no further, Glen French let us pitch our tent on his front lawn at Montumana (about 7km from our nearest source of supplies. Then said "Hang it- I'll take you to an ideal camping spot, by the river and near a shop. Grego was glad because he wanted some milk for a cup of tea, and we had just about run out. I was thinking hmm, then I have to walk back to fully have covered the route. I checked if the camping site was on our route or not, it was at a place called Detention 10K further on & we would be going through it. Then it dawned on me that Greg could go with Glenn and our two bags and the tent and all our goods and I could walk the 10K. That's what we're doing!

Update: They found the ideal camping spot by the river had recently had a "No Camping" sign put up. Greggo decided to go to the Caravan Park he had seen down the road, and found it was a Christian Community (The Annabaptists), and they have given us a place to stay, as well as sharing a meal with us tonight, at the Russell's place. After tea some of them allowed me to practice my drawing... what do you think?

An exciting thing for me is that the father of this household (Trevor) has offered to take our bags the 26km to Stanley tomorrow. Maybe we can walk it without our bags. Maybe not. We'll see. Trevor has also helped us work out how to get right to North Point (above Stanley)