July 9th: kayaking, July 10th: party

We went kayaking again on this day.

This time we went to a place where the river snakes around and then gets back to a point only a short distance from where you started. This means you can park the car somewhere and not need to travel too far to pick it up again after paddling downstream for quite a while.

This was a really cool day in the kayaks again. We drank some beer as we were floating along with the current, and I think that is a really cool way to spend some time.

At one point we made a little stop on the side of the river. I noticed a wriggly stick in the water and then we realised that it was a 'copper head' snake! Apparently they are poisonous. It was only a few metres upstream from us. I moved out to the side for a bit and kept a wary eye on it.

It was a really cool time floating down the river. I'd like to spend more days like that!

While driving to our cars, a few of us road in the back of the "truck". Apparently that's legal here! It was an interesting novelty.

I survived.

July 10th:

Jill and Age hosted a party this day for Jill's birthday which was going to be in a couple days time. I was also leaving the following day. I think that in the morning I spent a little while trying to figure out some technicalities for the next day so that I would find the hostel alright and to see if my bags would be under weight. Then we got some things ready for the party.

I played a game with some people called "corn holing". Basically, I there is a wooden board with a hole in it. You have a few bean bags and you take turns trying to thrown them into the hole. You win points in a few different ways. I turned out to be pretty amazing at this game and I won most rounds I was in, I think, except for a few games where I played against a guy from South America somewhere who had an even more extreme talent for throwing bean bags into a hole than my own. It was a fun game.

I talked to one guy about communism. I talked to some people. They were all nice people. Lots of southern accents around here. I think that once I thought this accent was annoying but now I think it's kind of interesting and "nice" in some kind of way. Later some people played guitar for a while, playing some songs they had written. Later on I did some planking with another guy.

Some people demonstrating the action of cornholing

planking.