Day 6

We just drove out of Mt Mulligan.
Nga Rakau finally came in off the trek after 10pm last night. We were expecting a bunch of sad sacks, but they were all in great spirits. Tim had a bit of a 'melt down' in the first section, not quite enough food and drink, and they had to ease back until he was back together. Then didn't have an altimeter set correctly which they needed to help them find CP16 (although a lot of teams had trouble finding that checkpoint).

Word through from race HQ is that alpineepic have had to pull out at CP21 (start of the Lake Tinaroo paddle) because someone's feet (most likely Shane's) were too bad to go on.

When we left Mt Mulligan, only 13 teams had finished the trek. There'll still be teams out there next week at this rate ...

Update on securify ... they apparently broke a paddle early on the Walsh River paddle, continued on with the one in one boat, then Dave got really badly dehydrated. They rested up for 12 hours or more to try and get him right, then struggled out to the end of the river, but Dave was too crook to go on, so Colin went back to Cairns with him (but not so crook you need to be worried Mrs Dave ... apparently now he's fine!), and Jill & Jerry went on with another part team. Which was supposed to be Osprey, although the Spot trackers seem to suggest that's not the case..)

Nga Rakau now appear to be doing circles on the MTB, apparently the nav somewhere in the middle of that leg is really tricky.