Famous in India
Jackamy
Paul & Derry Harper
Wed 9 Feb 2011 19:11
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Wednesday 9th February
After a number of attempts at
trying to contact the local police with no response we upped anchor around
10:30 and made our way out of the bay. We hadn't got very
far when a small rib came flying in our direction and instructed us to wait for
the police. Soon after a larger rib full of men came out to us. Miss Tippy
had all of our documents and we tried to get the police to head towards them but
instead out of the five boats they chose to board Sol Maria, the only boat
without visas! Typical! We were all a bit nervous for a minute or two, until it
became clear that the officials were more interested in having their photos
taken than looking at our documents. It was quite a novelty having five boats
anchor in their part of town so they had brought the local press and dignitaries
to film it. All boats had to line up so the officials could stand at the
bow of Sol Maria and have their picture taken with us in the background. It was
quite amusing but it did delay our departure by a couple of hours and we were
eager to get on our way.
 Boarding Sol Maria
 All boats in a line for the
photographs
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