En route to Bali
Anastasia
Phil May and Andrea Twigg
Wed 5 Sep 2012 13:26
12:08.3S 130:15.9E
We left Darwin at 12:00 and are now on our way to
Bali. There is very little wind, and what little there is is not in a very
good direction for catamarans so we are averaging about 2 knots towards Bali,
sitting right at the back of the fleet. Could be a long
passage.
When we were staying in Darwin we were in a place
called the "Duck Pond", which was a commercial marina (ie full of rusty fishing
boats doing maintenance work using jackhammers and angle grinders).
The only positive was that the fisherman were friendly and, before we
left, they gave us a big Barramundi which we have just had for
dinner. "Barra" is a very tasty Indo-Pacific fish. One of those
things that are commonplace here down under but that most Europeans have never
heard of (holidaying in Vanuatu is another example).
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