No internet but caught up on my blog just photos to sort
and upload now.
John gave the solar panels a clean.
We headed a little closer to town and perched near the
river and use internet to catch up with stuff. 
Still
no internet so on closer Still none. Something must be wrong so into
town and to the Beeline shop which was closed yesterday. We had
finally worked out that yesterday was a public holiday. The finish of
Ramadan.
Still
no internet so on closer Still none. Something must be wrong so into
town and to the Beeline shop which was closed yesterday. We had
finally worked out that yesterday was a public holiday. The finish of
Ramadan.
Beeline
sorted our SIM in short order. We had not bought a SIM for tourists. Yes
$$ signs went through our heads. But easily solved just need to have
a balance on sim to pay 500som a day AU10c. Back with comms!
Into
the markets for Vanish for the toilet and WD40. We wondered around a
lot and found Vanish mainly liquid but that’ll do. Powder was
available but in very small packets. WD40 was not available here.
Back
into the main building for some frozen chook, and some bread.
We
drove NW to lake Dawitko’l Suwsaqlag’ishi, stopping at a lot of
gas stations for diesel. Not available. We found one but you need
special paperwork to buy it, which we of course, do not posses.
The
road degraded as we went and was very slow, every 100m with potholes
which people drive around….
The
sandy track wound through a small group of houses then out the other
side on a less used track. We were surprised that the motor bikes
road only on the wheel tracks and did not cut corners.
We
arrived at the waters edge on a very pretty lake with 3 small fishing
skiffs.
Not
long after setting up we had a visitor, on Yes a motor bike and
sidecar, explained much.
He
was a fishing inspector and said we could not stay. Then we could stay one
night. He didn’t have much English but stayed and chatted for 1
hour. A couple of guys came on another sidecar and a push bike they paddled
out in the skiffs to bait a set line for the night. They would be
back in the morning to retrieve their catch.
The
inspector spoke about letting hatchlings go but we were not sure if
he’d already done it or was about to
.
A
quiet night.
120km
120km