Sailing around the World, ( presently in " Beqa " Fiji )
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Sat 26 Jun 2010 21:27
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SATURDAY 26th June
2010
08.00hrs, The weather is very wet and we have
a full tide.
We all pile into the rib and go ashore to the
resort for breakfast with Mark and Sue,
thats everyone , except Donal, he was still in the
middle of his nightly solo orchestral performance, so we left him at
it....ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzZZZZ
The food was excellent, pancakes & syrup, eggs,
and lots of other goodies.
the weather was so wet, we decided to treat
ourselves to some pampering, so Aileen and Margaret had mini manicures and
pedicures,
while skipper had a message and John walked around
the coast to the village in the rain.
This got rid of a few hours,
12.00hrs As the Yanks say, " We were all
done by midday " ready to roll, we went to say goodbye to Mark and he gave us
some
info and places to visit in Bali, as he worked
there for a while, now we wont get to Bali untill september, but its still
nice to get the early info.
so we will look as if we did our researching well
in advance.
Some of the Australians gave us simular info on
Darwin,
13.00hrs, We had to get the help of 6 locals to
help put the rib in the water, the flippin tide was flat out,
and can you imagine the girls, with their newely
painted toe nails, being asked to paddle out to the rib...
Ohhhhhhhhh shit !
the things that go wrong.... Sorry
love, we dident ask the tide to go out ..
We returned to the boat , We dont think Fats was
too pleased at being left all alone for the morning on board,
but then , as a true gentleman, he did not
complain,
We raised the anchor and set a course west to "
Yanuca " island, just about 6 miles away.
We tried a little fishing, without
success,
The journey took just over an hour, and we dropped
anchor again.
Donal went for his Ziz, while the girls went ashore
to the beach, and skipper put on his scuba equipment and went
diving.
John went snorkling, the water was very
clear, and the fish were very colourfull and plentyfull.
Later, about 1 hour later, when finished with the
diving, we got into emails and blogs,
The Island had a very small resort, John and the
girls checked it out, but decided it was not worth visiting.
Meanwhile, back on board, Fats did the
dinner, A chicken casserole,, with savoury rice,
We ate this lovely food in the " Starlight
Restaurant" and generally had a good night,
Then at about 19.00hrs, Aileen fell backwards down
the steps into the saloon and gave her head a wallop off the table, ouch
!
She was badly shaken ( and she dosent even
drink ) so we used all our available ice to keep the swelling down.
After another hour or so, she recovered enough to
get to the scratcher and take a bucket full of pain killers.
We, the rest of us , finished off another bottle of
red, while we were waiting for the water maker to recover some of the
water
used for showers ,etc over the last few days.
Thats it for now.
Signed :- Stephen
Hyde ( skipper )
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