No, we're not back in India, but 12 of us decided to rent a huge houseboat on the Murray River last weekend, for the meesly sum of a three hour drive and $100 or so dollars each we headed to Echuca to pick up our stupidly big boat.
Its fair to say that you would expect a decent level of instruction on how to drive the thing, especially given our collective lack of boat driving experience. But, within 5 minutes of the 'instructor' climbing aboard he was off, leaving Adrian, Dave and myself (at this point the girls didnt fancy a go, Sian and Emma Peel later drove superbly) to negotiate the fairly fast flowing Murray. Later that night, the others joined us making a happy twelve-some. Most of us had a go at driving the boat, Adrian and Emma P proving to be some of the more 'trust-worthy' hands. Thats all I'll say about driving the boat, a few near misses, and one tree later we needed to pay an extra charge for 'structural re-alignment' of the front of the boat, aforementioned tree being to blame, silly place to put a tree really, a riverbank.........what were they thinking....
The rest of the time we were busy jumping in the river, drinking, BBQ-ing and more drinking, oh, and sunburning a bit, intermingled with being bitten by mosquitos, apart from Sian who seems to be imune to the flying critters.
Photos will be on soon, when I can, and definately one of the best weekends we've had in Oz so far, doing it again in February hopefully......
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