1st April - April Fool mooring behaviour - back in Coron

Wednesday 1^st April 2015

2XS at Rio y Mar

We left beautiful Rio y Mar and spent the night at Port Borac, a pleasant little anchorage, with many noisy dogs, plus people singing loudly and cheerily.  Time to return to Coron…

Port Borac

 Sometimes I secretly hope that people are watching, when Pete and I pick up a mooring on 2XS.  We are such a slick operation!  I usually hook the rope first go, and haul it up onto the deck and around the cleat as briskly and neatly as you could imagine.

But…not today… We arrived back in Coron at 11.30 and headed for our usual mooring.  I missed the rope loop first go, no big deal… We just have to go round past it again.  Unfortunately…the rope and the buoy disappeared under the boat and all got tangled up, big time, around the propeller.  Oh dear, oh no… (That is NOT what Pete said…He has a different vocab for these special moments…)

A soothing photo to calm us down...

I got in the water first and managed to get the big loops of rope off the propeller blades.  But struggle though I might, I could NOT get the big fat rope out from where it had jammed itself into the small gap on the prop shaft.  Bring out the big guns – Pete had to go into the water, for his own monumental struggle.  He won this battle, of course, but it wasn’t actually all that much fun…

But all ended well, and we are now in the breezy Seadive restaurant, about to have a cheap & cheerful lunch.  There is no beer left on 2XS at all and Pete is smiling very lovingly at his San Miguel, icy cold.

Our plan is to stay here until Easter Monday, by which time we should have replenished our supplies of everything (especially beer…)  And then – heading East, and South!

One last giraffe photo