26th July 2013 Well, here we are, back on the watery sea, bowling along on the way to Brisbane. The day before we left we had a real scurry around the far reaches of the town getting all the clearances done and the final stamps in the passports. We had to have a taxi ride this time as we would not have been able to dinghy it across the bay without looking like drowned rabbits, but the good side of the taxi ride was the big supermarket we went past. We had Dominic the driver leave us there on the way back and collect us after we had found our first real meat and cheese for lunch and meat for dinner, and veges in ages. Somehow tinned corned beef, tinned veges, tinned everything loses its appeal after a couple of years.
In its inimitable way the sea has had a laugh with us - we actually left the bay after re-fuelling at the smallest fuelling station we have been tied up to, and collecting the last of the washing (beautifully done and hung out to dry then carefully folded so no ironing needed) and put up the main sail which has been out of action for months as not needed (no cobwebs or bird's nests seen). The sun was out, the sea just right and we moseyed along. Till night time when we wanted to sleep! Then the mother of all rackets from block banging on the deck, the wind getting up and the sea going back to its old lumpiness. But we are cheerful having just put another reef in the main and coffee made. Dave is not so cheerful as he had the full frontal sea water dowsing when he was in the cockpit. So now it is getting the weather in, sending this to our Kate to post for us and getting ready for breakfast.
17deg59minS and 166deg 24E 1021 miles to go!
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