Day 5 - rain, thunder and lightning
Very different day distance wise, only 6-7kms due to a sore left knee, more difficult terrain and general tiredness.
Overnight there was lots of rain, thunder and lightning. So much so, that he ended up sleeping on the ground in his sleeping bag under a tarp about 100m away from cart from 11pm-3am. He said it was so close a few times he thought for sure the cart had gone. Now that's a little scary!! Thankfully he had taken his day bag with him so at least he'd have been able to call to let us know.
No animals today - a little mouse yesterday.
Bren and Matt have caught up with him as well and they are all at Camp 6 with more rainy weather expected. When they drove across what Graeme had walked on Day 1, they had water up to the top of the tyres or at least that's what it sounded like he said on the phone tonight. Hard to imagine.
He also called Lizzy's class, 6B for a chat (and 6K listened too). They asked him lots of questions such as overnight and day time temps (8 and 18 respectively), has he seen Mad Max (I'd argue he's seen Grotty Graeme), have you seen any cactii, how long will it take you, what have you been having for dinner (honey soy chicken) etc. At the end Lizzy's teacher let her leave the class to talk to him a bit longer - she said that was good but 'so embarrassing as everyone was looking out the window at her'.
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