The 2014 Challenge, day 14: Going to sea (21)

I arrived in Tangleha' at 5.15. An elderly resident greeted me, and offered to take a photograph of me having finished. I said that would be very nice, but that I had a ritual to attend to first. I stepped down into the harbour, and headed to the water's edge. The old man warned me that it would be muddy, but I didn't care. I squelched through the gloop and dipped my poles into the sea. I had finished!