Tuesday 12th
April 2016
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| Pete hard at work of course |
We have de-camped from Camp Holiday. Back on the boat, up in the air, on a slight
slope…
I think our little cockroach petfriend will miss us! I tried to let him out last night but when I
opened the door, he became all frantic and quivery and started running up and
down the door and the walls. So funny that
we were quite happy to she the cabin with him… If by chance he has stowed away
in one of our bags we will suddenly HATE him and pursue him viciously until he
has either left the boat or been killed!
Our Hobart friend Emma keeps asking me to put photos
of cats on Facebook. (Yes Em there aren’t
enough cats on Facebook!) I have tried
to tell her that cats in South East Asia are not all that pretty…, They are
thin, mangy, and they mostly have strangely kinked or truncated tails – this is
actually a genetic anomaly, not, as I first thought, hatchet jobs…
We had a nice little family of ginger cats which
lurked, a bit suspiciously, around our cabin.
One of them sat, a bit nervously, and let me take a slightly out-of-focus
portrait photo.
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| Emma |
During the week Camp Holiday is quiet. At the weekend it is all GO!!! Not sure how many people squeeze into each
tiny cabin…The one opposite us had a gentle little church youth group, replete
with guitar. The number of thongs
outside the door seemed to indicate just a few more than two people inside…
Saturday and Sunday people arrive in large family
groups. They bring EVERYTHING with
them. Large bottles of water, pots and
pans, food, little tents. They don’t buy
anything at all from the restaurant.
At lunch on Sunday Terry, who has been living on the hard
in his little yacht Valhalla in Ocean View for many years, told us that every single
item which goes into Camp Holiday has to be paid for, with a sort of corkage
fee. Otherwise…how on earth would the
resort make any money??
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| SV Labyrinth (trimaran) |
The two boats which left a week or so ago, Stormbird
(Turkey) and Labyrinth (Australia) have both come to grief. Labyrinth only got as far as General Santos; the
crank shaft broke and they are in big trouble.
I have heard that Jolene and Jason are on their way back here – maybe they
are being towed? I took a photo of
Jolene, Liz and me just before Labyrinth left.
I am looking inordinately worried - a presentiment??
As for Stormbird…they got as far as Borneo and their engine
conked out. They were in a bit of a
civil war zone; it must have been very worrying. The navy came along and towed them into
Semporna, where, presumably, they will have to try to fix the engine. Or Lordy…poor Gina, poor Ahmed… He was here
for at least a year getting the boat ready, fixing the engine…
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