Saliling around the World... ( presently in Fiji )
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Mon 21 Jun 2010 06:04
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SATURDAY 19th JUNE
2010
A much better day today,
The Girls got going early, they took a bus across
the island to " Labasa " the capitol of the Island,
They explained later that the country side and
landscape was beautifull and that the Island was a lot bigger than they
imagined,
However the bus journey must have been tough
going, as they returned by taxi.
Overall, the round trip was about 200
km..
John hired a scooter and took off expolring
what was to be seen, mostly bird watching,, the flying type.
Skipper spent most of the day having the laptop
serviced and debugged,
these bloody contracptions, seem to have a mind all
of thier own, only work now and then, or when they feel like it,
and are prone to a virus as soon as you look
at them..
Skipper decided to read the blogs of other ARC
boats taking part in this trip on the World A R C sute,
Surprised at how few there were, and on top of
that, some were in German. So he read " Voyaguer "blog and " Crazy
Horse "
What was interesting here is the different openions
of the places we visited. especially " Bloody Mary's " in Bora
Bora.
Later , back on board, the skipper changed the fuel
filters, and filled the water tank from the dock.
Fats serviced the Port primary winch, this has been
slipping slightly in recent times. a bit like ourselves,
SLIPPING.............age !
We also have to be serviced every now and
then.
We got new neighbours on port side, a "
Seastream 63 " on her way from New Zealand to Mexico via
Hawaii.
A beautifull looking craft, built in the U K
.
But they dropped their anchor across our anchor
chain, which caused lots of grief later,, The friggin
LANGERS ....................+
and while we are on the subject, the owner seems to
have a new doll, just barly older than his sons, Wonder who is doing who
!
17.00hrs Happy hour in the Y C , as
described last night, just 30 feet from the boat,
We went to the " Surf and Turf " restaurant for
dinner, it was excellent, and we had a great night, with the
company
of Bill, Rosemary, and Matt from " Crazy Horse "
and Jim from " Ocean Jasper "
Later, we had a couple of night caps before hitting
the scratchers.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Signed :- Stephen
Hyde , ( Skipper )
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