Kayak the Coorong » Uncategorized http://www.gregspurgin.com/kayak-canoe-the-coorong-south-australia Tue, 09 Apr 2013 04:24:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 Lambert Point to Mount Anderson http://www.gregspurgin.com/kayak-canoe-the-coorong-south-australia/?p=22 http://www.gregspurgin.com/kayak-canoe-the-coorong-south-australia/?p=22#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2013 08:45:38 +0000 http://www.gregspurgin.com/kayak-canoe-the-coorong-south-australia/?p=22 Another cold and wet day. I struggled south against the headwind but did not get as far as I hoped. I wanted to get close to Hells Gate which is a narrowing of the Coorong that separates the North and Southern parts of the Coorong. I wanted to try getting through Hells Gate in the [...]]]> Another cold and wet day. I struggled south against the headwind but did not get as far as I hoped. I wanted to get close to Hells Gate which is a narrowing of the Coorong that separates the North and Southern parts of the Coorong. I wanted to try getting through Hells Gate in the morning,  but it looks (if the wind stays the same)  that I will not be able to get there until
the afternoon.  Part way along I stopped to look for the “Teak Wreck”  which is meant to be the remains of a 400 year old shipwreck. All I found was a galv gate. However I did walk through to the ocean beach.

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Ocean beach coorong

]]> http://www.gregspurgin.com/kayak-canoe-the-coorong-south-australia/?feed=rss2&p=22 1 Lambert Point rest day http://www.gregspurgin.com/kayak-canoe-the-coorong-south-australia/?p=20 http://www.gregspurgin.com/kayak-canoe-the-coorong-south-australia/?p=20#comments Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:40:21 +0000 http://www.gregspurgin.com/kayak-canoe-the-coorong-south-australia/?p=20 My arms were too tired so it was time for a rest day. It has been a cloudy day, but the sun did come out a bit in the afternoon. I had a look around Lambert Point (I am camped about 300 metres south). The guidebook I have says that some of the survivors of [...]]]> My arms were too tired so it was time for a rest day. It  has been a cloudy day, but the sun did come out a bit in the afternoon. I had a look around Lambert Point (I am camped about 300 metres south). The guidebook I have says that some of the survivors of the Maria were buried there. The Maria was shipwrecked at Cape Jaffa in 1840. The survivors walked along the coorong ocean beach but were killed by the local aboriginals. Some of the bodies are supposed to be buried at Lambert Point,  but I could not find anything.

Tomorrow I continue to head south.

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Lambert Point

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