Day 20, Launceston to Gravelly Beach
Today we paddled early to use the tide back up the river, starting just after 7:30 am. The 25km paddle went by without anything of note occurring, however the day had quiet a lot install for the paddlers as they returned back to Launceston to do five hours of fundraising in the Brisbane Street Mall.
While the good folk at the council could not allow us to take a kayak into the mall (due to potential injury to passers by), we set up our table and chairs outside Myers and set about being very good and sticking to the many rules the nice lady at the council gave us. However, not saying anything to people and staying next to our table, was not getting the results we wanted so, in the last few hours we all began to 'bend' the rules a little, and the tins filled up double time!
Our friends from the Examiner once again turned up to take a photo of us fundraising – this was later followed up with a phone interview. So if you can, get a copy of the Examiner on Thursday.
Ben and Charles starting a day on the Tamar.
Fundraising in the Launceston Mall.
