BLUE WATER RALLY - AUSTRALIA WHITSUNDAYS HOOK ISLAND
20.07S 148.54E Monday 1st September 6.00am start
as planned but incredibly in our remote anchorage last night we somehow managed
to watch Australian TV! Our flat screen is only really there to watch
films through the MP3 player or Playstation. Amazing really and as we
haven’t seen any news or in fact any TV for a year…… we
overdosed last night. We are so out of touch – horrendous hurricane
in Another lovely day today – sunny but still with a chill in the
air we motored all day as there wasn’t a breath of wind and until 12 noon
we had two knots of current against us before it turned again in our
favour. We are now moored in seven meters of clear water down Nara Inlet,
Hello, ‘ello, ‘ello……….. Bird………..’on the
wire’……… And then there were two……. We saw a breaching whale today – honestly! I wasn’t
quick enough to photograph it though. The gas solution was short lived and after cooking a delicious lamb
curry last night with all my fresh ingredients: ginger, garlic, coriander,
lemongrass and sesame oil it gave up the ghost. I am resorting to the
barbecue now but can use a saucepan directly over the flame. The latest worry is the engine again – there seems to be oil
intermittently spraying out of the breather pipe. It’s not
overheating, doesn’t smoke, starts up first time, ticks over like a
sewing machine and sounds sweet……what can the problem be?
Possibly worn valves? We have cleaned the air filter again – our
oil filters never arrived in Mackay. We are just not sure how serious the
problem is and whether to stop before Darwin (with our time constraints) or
whether to push onwards….I suspect we will opt for the latter unless the
problem gets worse. Huge rocks here…..a bit fjord-like……… |