Life on the river

'Sarf & West mate, Sarf & West'
Pete Bernfeld
Fri 4 Jan 2013 08:46
At the risk of sounding like Ratty, there's nothing quite like messing about on boats!

After just over a week of gyrating around the anchorage I've given up on the stern anchor. The current just wouldn't flow fore and aft, it insisted on swirling around all over the place! I finally said 'sod it' this morning and after waking up broad-side on to the wind and current, i.e fore and aft ACROSS the damn river. After re-anchoring four times and relaying the stern anchor as many times  I'm now swinging around like everybody else (make of that what you will) except of course Trouters has her own inimitable style of doing things.

30degC today with 65% humidity. Tough eh? A couple of hours writing, into Woolies (the supermarket) to get some eggs and a baguette. Bit more writing then a glass of wine and watch the Manic Botanic Garden Joggers (weren't they a group?).

Tomorrow will be hectic, I'm starting a new fitness regime.Row ashore with 2X20L jerrycans, top up water from a convenient tap and row back out. Phew, hectic or what?

Haven't really got to know the neighbours yet. The Aussie on the steel ketch has been here a year, the lad on the 30 footer lost a boat in the floods two years ago but he's happy enough with the replacement and Peter on the double-ender ketch has been here a while as well. I have to say it's a pretty good spot to be. The ideal would probably be some sort of barge so you could get further up river. I think you can get about 50 km up the river if you don't have a mast. That would be an interesting trip. The only annoying thing is the gits on the jet-skis. Granted they don't (as yet) slalom in between the anchored boats but apparently there's no speed limit on the river. The wash from the ferry-cats is not too bad but sometimes the mono-ferries can create a bit of a disturbance. It's not as bad as the books would have you believe, so anybody thinking of a spot to hang out for a couple of months, I can recommend the Botanical Garden anchorage, just don't all come at once!

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