Saturday 29th
April 2017
16 degrees 29 434S
145 degrees
27.536E
Port Douglas
marina
So here we sit, in the midst of vast superyachts and
charter vessels. 2XS looks very small
and slightly shabby after her battering by Cyclone Debbie.
We left the Low Isles at midday and Captain Pete
decided that we should anchor up the river.
He and James spent a few merry hours, with assistance from Bronwen and
me. We dropped the anchor at a certain
depth, a certain angle. And then they
went in to the shore in the stout little dinghy to attach a mooring line to…the
mangroves. This was all very tricky and wobbly.
And not particular confidence-inspiring…A few local
men went past in small boats. Pete did a
thumbs up to one of them and received a very definite double thumbs down. Ah, local knowledge – what relevance does
that have?? Another man came up and said
that 2XS would almost certainly swing around at the change of tide and bang
into the muddy river edge. Hmmm…James and
Bron said they would pay for us to stay in the marina; neither of them,
strangely, wanted to bump into the muddy mangroves in the middle of the night.
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| A close-up of MangrovePete! |
So here we sit, comfortably attached to the marina
pontoons, with electricity plugged in and beautiful hot showers not too far away.
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| james and Bron in the beautiful avenue of trees at Paranella Park |
Today we can pootle around beautiful Port Douglas;
once again, all is well on 2XS.
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