This report is coming to you live as I am on the phone with Birch and he is mumbling his way through the recap of the last few hours. I may have heard the same story 3 times in the last 10 minutes, but loving every minute of it. The Reach The Beach transition areas sound insane over the phone and again, very jealous that I am not there. Now here is our young cub reporter with another update-

Birch live and direct:
Apparently Charlie does surf, the squad is duct taped together and the The Stick is in use. One person has resorted to a marble rolling pin as their stick has evaporated due to overuse.The papier mache designs on the vans have been destroyed and the sun is starting to come up and baking the place.

The next few sentences came through garbled but I can tell you there was a story about queuing up for food and then being denied as their turn came up. A sad story but one of the harsh realities of Reach The Beach.

For all of you in the GJ fan club, I spoke to him, he is doing well and cannot wait to soak in a barrel of beer, or was it drink a barrel.