Sailing around the World ( Presently in Darwin , Australia )
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Wed 1 Sep 2010 17:11
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TUESDAY 31st
AUGUST 2010
A slow start today,
the weather was clear and hot.
We all walked to the Yacht Club to get our Customs
Clearance as we are leaving Darwin for Bali tomorrow.
The crew for this leg are :-
Stephen Hyde ( Skipper )
Aileen Hyde
Neil Tritschler
We had to show our pass ports and have them stamped
, all arranged for the World ARC yachts by WCC, This saved us
all
a lot of time travelling to the custom house in
town. queing up and generally being frustrated by red tape,
Once the customs guys were out of the way, we hired
a taxi and off with us to do our shopping for the trip.
We drove to " Casuarina " shopping centre, and the
place is huge, The chicken shop really took us totally in,
The variety of different chicken arrangments
was great, Stuffed rolled chicken with cheese and nuts, stuffed legs of
chicken,
Chicken snitzels, chicken meat balls, all
sorts of chicken , hundreds of choices.
The main anchor tenant is Woolworths, and the range
of goods on offer there was extrodinary so we slowly shopped ourselves to a
standstill,
Oh , Aileen got her hair done, so Neill and Skipper
did most of the shopping, however, we wont get the credit for
that... such is life.
14.30 We had some oriental food for lunch, again
the selection of restaurants in the Mall is awsome,
Darwin and its surrounding areas has a total
population of approx 150,000 people, and yet it can support a venture like
this,,
We got a taxi back to the boat and spent the next
hour or so packing away all the stuff,
17.30hrs We went to the skippers briefing at the
Yacht club,, Paul Tetlow and Susanne from Rally Control ( World ARC ) gave the
talk,
basically outlining what to expect on route, the
different options of avoiding all the Oil and Gas rigs, the reefs,
etc.
what to expect when we arrive in Bali and so on,,
Neill and Skipper had to skip the end as the
sailmaker was returning our geneo to the boat at 18.30 , of course the
f**** was late.
however , we did eventually get the sail up and all
ready for the trip. ( the stitching on the foot had just disintegrated from the
sun.)
19.45 All three of us went to " Christo's
Restaurant " for a feed of great fresh Fish and chips. yum,
yum,
When finished, We met up with some of the
other participants including the " Bubbly Bev " who informed us that she spent
some of her childhood living in Bali, and still had friends there with a diving
school and they would look out for us,,
Well done Bev. we certainly look forward to
that.
Bev is always great company, full of beans, and
would light up the dullest of parties.
Later, we sat down in the boat and read all the
emails from around the world,
We will get into these on some other blog,
Thats all for today.
Signed :- Stephen
Hyde ( Skipper )
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