Saturday 28th
January 2016
Pete is back from Queensland and maybe he can have some
peaceful time at home.
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| Maybe! |
2XS is safely in the marina on Hamilton Island, with
both motors working.
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| Antifouling in the Philippines |
Away from the crocodiles! When I had left Townsville in November, Pete
decided to get into the water to scrub the bottom on the boat. It is very dirty, encrusted with marine
life. The anti-foul, done so painstakingly
in Ocean View marina (Philippines) last year April) is obviously a dud. It promotes rather than discourages marine
organisms!! I didn’t want Pete to get
into the water. What could possibly go wrong??
Apparently (*cough*) I was being over-cautious. Various long-term inhabitants of the marina
told him there hadn’t ever been a crocodile anywhere near Breakwater. So in he hopped, scrubbing away
industriously. No crocs in sight, no
probs!
Recently he paid Dale, who lives in the marina, to get
in and scrub yet again. Dale does this
for a living. He was in the water for
nearly two hours, and when he came out he said, casually, that it was all safe
now because…The Crocodile (the non-existent crocodile???) is dead! Apparently
just a few days after Pete left Townsville in December, not long after his
underboat labours, a waterski boat ran into a large underwater object… A three
and a half metre crocodile, which had been living , peacefully and calmly, in
around around Breakwater. (The croc didn’t
survive this encounter.)
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