Sailing around the World, ( presently in Airlie Beach Australia, )
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Tue 10 Aug 2010 22:44
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TUESDAY 10th AUGUST
2010
07.00hrs,, We all got up, Mary's leg is still doing
ok.but looks afull, ohhhhhh skipper is not good with these
situations,
08.15hrs jack and Chris arrive to
complete their bits and pieces, ie change the oil in the H.P. water maker
pump.
and install the PMU in the generator
engine,
10.30hrs, Everything is up and running, the water
mater and the generator are purring like cats again, so lets hope
that they keep going like that for the next few
years.
Phil arrived to connect the SSB, by midday, he was
reciving and sending traffic on the unit, we could not hear it as it was very
faint,
but he seems happy it is working ok .
The girls toddled off to where ever, and skipper
and Niall remained to give a hand on the boat, and make sure that all is ready
to go to sea
if we get our navigation card for the RL80 C
tomorrow.
Skipper cooked a spiced ox tongue , while Niall
fiddled with the Skippers laptop all day, He was very good at sorting out
the laptop
and making it work properly for the
boss.
Later S & N walked down town, ( about 1.5
miles ) and had fish and chips for lunch. and it was very
tasty.
15.00hrs, we listened to the weather forcast on the
SSB for the east coast of Australia, cripes, gale warnings all over the place,
Shite,
Not exactly what we want going north to
Darwin,,,
One of the interesting things about this place is
the amount of swallows , They are all over the marina, and spend all day taking
off
and landing on the boats, and we watched some of
them go into yachts and motor launches through ventillation grills, They
are so cute.
18.00hrs, The girls returned from some
wonderfull shopping village they found ( as only girls can do ) and displayed
the purchases of the day.
Then we skyped phone calls, and video calls on the
laptop. jeeee is was terrific, we did N.Z. to skippers
aunt Vera, and home to ireland,
very impressive stuff,, for us oldies anyway, this
, of course would be a piece of cake to our granchildren,,
19.30 hrs, We all went to " Clippers "
restaurant in the nearby hotel, and it certainly ranked high on the list of good
food places we have
been to since we arrived in Australia. We
spent a few hours there talking about nothing, as you do after a few bottles of
wine
The desserts were to die for, and skippers
favourate " sticky toffee date pudding " was on the menue,
yum, yum,
The mainers we had consisted of - rack of
lamb - Chicken in Lemon Filo pastry - prawn
tampura x 2 -
but it was the way it was cooked and presented that
impressed us most,
Then , it started to rain, blast, and we have
no brollies with us, why would we, its not supposed to rain when we go
out,
However, after a little vuodoo dancing, it stopped
and we toddled off back to the boat, and just arrived as the rain started
again,
and settled in for the night,
We had a small night cap, and crawled into the
scratchers......................... zzzzzzz
Thats it for now,
Signed :-
Stephen Hyde , ( Skipper )
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