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Day 24, Ulverstone to Burnie

We arrived back at the Ulverstone Surf Lifesaving Club at just after 6:30am to find Matt Potter waiting patiently for us. This time we were keen to get away, so we passed on another cuppa. As Charles would say, Matt's "kindness exceeds his generousity".

The wind was on our side today, for a change, so the 25kms to Burnie went by relatively quickly. As we passed by Penguin, the families gathered on the shore (just outside their 'interesting' accommodation) and waved, took photos and wished us well.

Arrangements had been made to meet up with some ski paddlers from the Burnie Surf Club, once we caught up with them, the pace did quicken just a bit, but it was enjoyable to paddle into Burnie with this group of keen fellow paddlers. We had hope that the Advocate newpaper would have a photographer there to meet us, but we can only assume something else had caught their attention? So instead we were meet by family and friends, who did the photographers work for us, thank guys, at least someone loves us.

Paddling past Penguin.

Paddling into Burnie with seven members of the Burnie Surf Life Saving Club.

Posing with the same seven blokes.

From left: Jonno Price (our contact at the club), Brett Cumming (Chris' brother), Shane James (long time mate of Chris and Brett), and you all know who the other two are.

Setting up for more fundraising outside the Somerset IGA store.