DAY 6 (page 2 of 4): Thursday, August 15, 2002

9:02 am - A mad rush to pack with storms brewing overhead

After our fill of burgers, dogs and sausages, courtesy of our good friends at Beveridges IGA, the team settled down for a pretty quiet evening. Most were asleep by 10 pm, but there were a few die hards who had to sample some of Merrickville's finest night life...and catch the sports scores -- we've been a bit out of touch for the last 6 days.

The last stragglers crawled into their tents around midnight. However, all were abruptly awoken around 3 am, as the skies finally opened up and the rain pelted the "fly-less" tents (everyone had removed their protective tent "fly" covers to get some better air circulation). There was a mad scramble to get them back on -- only a couple of people didn't bother and got soaked...we won't say who they were but one of them is in the photo to the left. :)

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