Monday 4th
April 2016
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| Riding the jeepney into the city |
Another Davao Day.
Last week we did some investigations and finally found a big furniture
shop where they make mattresses and cushions.
Pete tested the density of various foam qualities
and we ordered, with some hesitation, four new
cushions for the outside area of 2XS, in a soothing shade of blue. Our sales assistant, Ann, assured us they
would be ready in 3-5days (the other shop we went to said 3-5 WEEKS!) and
indeed she rang on Saturday to say we could come and get them. No doubt there will be photos of Pete fast
asleep upon one or two of them in days to come…
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| Pete snoozing inside; soon he will be able to snooze outside as well |
Yesterday we had a Samal Island excursion in the big
red ute, with two other Australians, a Norwegian, an American and two
Philippines. We went to two places. The first, in Kaputian, was right on the
water and all very pretty but…they eventually revealed that they didn’t
actually have any food, although we had arrived all ready to have lunch.
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| Typical Kaputian house |
No explanation, just big smiles and No food today. So off to a second restaurant in Penaplata
where they had more than enough food, all very delicious. (I ate Bicol Express again; am developed a
great fondness for okra…)
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| Eric (owner of the red ute) with Krissy |
On Friday I had a haircut, on the lawn outside the
clubhouse. Poipoi the gardener watered
my head with his sprinkler and I sat happily on a plastic chair in the shade
while Liz gently followed my instructions not to cut too much off. So nice sitting outside with a delicate
breeze wafting and no confronting mirror…
Liz and I talked a lot about misadventures at
sea. Some people are more accident-prone
than others…She had friends from Queensland
who set off optimistically towards Vanuatu a few years ago. The man got the drogue rope caught around his
leg and was very badly injured – nearly lost his leg; these rogue drogue ropes
are lethal… The wind and the sea were creating tumultuous conditions on board
so they abandoned ship and clambered onto a large container ship which was, lucky
for them, close by. Their boat was later
found, drifting happily in the Louisiades and being stripped of every single
moveable part…They didn’t give up their sailing dream; they re-grouped, bought
another boat, and set off again…
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| Krissy and Abet |
One of the boats which set off the other day from
Ocean View didn’t get very far. The
crank shaft broke and the engine is very badly damaged. This all happened, most fortuitously, near a
big shipyard at General Santos so they can haul out and try to fix thing. NOT fun…they thought that by now they would be
happily making a nature documentary off the coast of Borneo.
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| Chris and Liz |
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