Friday 24th January
Pete and I are
having two days of relative inactivity.
To our great surprise, the lack of having to be up and GOGOGOing means
that we have been sleepsleepsleeping… At 10am and Pete was still in
Sleepyboboland; I only woke up at 9.15.
No we didn’t have
a particularly late night. We spent the day reasonably busy but not
needing to go very far from 2XS. Our new
berth, D3 is VERY close to the big pavilion containing the ablutions block. Wonderful!
I no longer have to get on a bike and rush down pontoons and along the
path to get to the toilet. I can just
stroll up the gangplank and a few steps further, and there it is. Last time, on A19, we were as far as possible
from any of the facilities. It was all very
nice and private but…inconvenient.
I did some washing
and cleaning, at a leisurely pace, and went down to the beach to do internet
things. The rest of the afternoon I sat
in a shady position on the deck, listening to podcasts (the ABC Conversation/ interview
with Kate McClymont was particularly interesting) and knitted, while watching
people get on and off the ferries. Then
I dealt with my horrid fingernails and made them a bit more presentable. A hard
day’s night…
Pete in the
meantime sat motionless at the table, struggling with our recalcitrant printers
(yes we have two…sometimes neither of them will obey their job description) and
doing bookwork. He is set to do much the
same today. My job is to keep up the
fluids; he forgets to drink water and this is not a good thing, in such hot
weather.
At 6.30 we went
down to the beach bar for happy hour cocktails with our friends. We were very pleased and surprised to find we
still have friends here – we thought they had all scattered, but no. Solace, Zoa, Delphian, Out of the Blue II are
all back here, after adventures around the island. Most of us went for dinner in the Hard Dock
Café and returned to our boats/beds around 11.30, to sleep sleep SLEEP.
Paul and Gina (SV
Solace) are here for a while longer.
They are waiting for a parcel to arrive for the USA. It has cleared Malaysian customs and will be
with them…one day. They are about to
head off across the Indian Ocean, to go up the coast of Africa, so they need
the boat to be completely seaworthy. I
forget what they said was in the package but…it is crucial to their wellbeing.)
And all of our
other friends are off toThailand this morning. We were very happy to see Phil and Cheryl,
for Adagio, arriving late in the afternoon.
Phil had been in Danga Bay, in the rain, surrounded by mosquitoes and
midgies, for many weeks while Cheryl did the Malaysian Rally on 2XS, Kularoo
and Alleycat. She flew back to join him
and they have now, finally, together, arrived at the end point of the rally. I thought I would spend today chatting with
Cheryl in the pool – how lovely would that have been! – but no; they too are
off and away this morning, in a convoy with the others.
I trotted along
the dock to say goodbye to them all this morning.
Chris was down in
the engine hold of Out of the Blue II with John (SV Delphian), fixing a last
minute problem.
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Phil and Cheryl
were very contentedly ready to go.
I had a cup of
coffee on SV Zoe with Janice. So lovely,
light and comfortable. Monohulls are not
always so pleasant inside…
