Saturday 19th October
First a random photo from Bali. We were very interested watching the workmen carefully making beautiful flower patterns on the paths surrounding the temple on the lake. So intricate, so labour-intensive.
Our Tasmanian friend (and Pete’s cousin) Julie
enjoys sailing. A bit… A few years ago
she spent a happy week or so pootling round the Bay of Islands in New Zealand,
with some friends. Lovely. She had fun, made herself useful, and it was
generally deemed to be a great success.
A year or so later the same people contacted her
and said that as it had all gone so well in New Zealand, maybe she would like
to crew on the boat from Auckland to the Cook Islands. Well, why not?? It turned out to be not quite so much fun…
Twenty one days at sea without a break… I found the three nights we did from
Darwin to Kupang to be exhausting, with three hour watches interspersed with
six hour sleeps… I am not sure I would survive twenty one days AND
NIGHTS!! Added to this, Julie’s bunk was
a small narrow affair right next to the engines, and the skipper felt the need
to tinker noisily with his machinery whenever it was Julie’s turn to
sleep…Fun? Not so much…
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