12 November 2010: More exploration

the council grants land to any who move to empty plains in northeast. agree to build canals with all roads. the unification of truadon or aranox with federation must be done by plebiscite of each tribe. pass thunder dome resolution, which is later revoked.

with exploring group: they go to Gorlens and embark on ship. go south and encounter some cataracts. there is a 200 ft drop. we land. see no way to get past cataracts without taking boat out past them and then lowering it. we see strange 4 ft furry creatures. they eat plants.(are giant sloths) we drag the boat away from the cataracts for 2 days. the current was too strong to go north. we return to gorlens. a week has passed since we embarked. we go out of the bay and north. there are no fish in the eastern waters. it is only about 30 ft deep in most places, and crystal clear. there is a point where it goes very deep in swirling mess. we figure it is a spring deep down. it is more than 300 yards deep. the eastern sea is only about 50 miles wide bordered on the opposite shore by tall cliffs. we continue north. reach the edge of the cliffs. the sea we have been following turns in to a large river. we go in the river and the boat is damaged. we stop to repair it for 5 days. after 3 days in the river we reach an open ocean. there are lots of drift wood logs, some 200 ft long. we go onshore. see tracks, and then 6 ft diameter horseshoe crab. we kill it. it has blue blood. we cook and eat it. we keep the shell. we see tracks leading away from crab. we follow inland. we are on sandy beach which become dunes after a distance. we can see the cliffs of the eastern sea. we spot some crabs mating. we kill one. it was 9 ft in diameter. we go to sandstone cliffs. many birds. we go down a carved path. dinosaur birds attack us. we run away to the boat. we sleep that night underneath the boat. in the morning we collect the body of the crab we killed yesterday and then kill another 6 ft crab. some birds come near us and start eating some eggs. after they leave we take the egg shells. we go back to sea. a huge 60 ft alligator monster with a 15 ft long head bumps into our boat. we go back to the river. we see a few goat herders on the north shore of the river. we continue north. see grassy plains.after 5 days we try to catch a shark. a large sea creature eats the shark. after 2 days we see plains rise into snow capped mountains. we land. the mountains come straight out of the ocean. we climb the muntains for 2 days. reach snowline. we find a mountain pass. see a green valley. we go down to valley. we see some aranox villages. we go to the closest one and find they have heard of us already. they are freindly. they have sweet potatoes 2 ft long. we are given some colored crystals.