Darwin, what do I say, shop, shop, shop. We entered the Marina last Monday with Reef and Taz still on board and explored the Wave Park every day until they flew out on the second of June. Pam/Que had flown in and took them to the airport which was great. Our adventure with them coming from Gove to Darwin was wonderful and we all had a ball. Reef was such a good kid, he played soccer with poppies sox, learnt to tie knots, did puzzles and tons more as he had at his disposal 3 adults to entertain and amuse him.
Marg and Clive also flew in early Wednesday and between the 5 of us we have seen Woolworths, Coles, some wonderful restaurants, Mindil Market on both Sunday and Thursday evenings, Woolworths, and Coles…..Oops Liqourland, how could I forget.
The Mindil Market was full of great stalls, clothes, craft, food etc. We ran into Di and Ron Sinclair and Sandra Casbolt from Leongatha. Marg also found an acquaintance, what a small world.
We have stocked up with our supplies and I think that Marg and Pam have found the whole experience some what daunting, overwhelming and to quote from the settee “exhaustion has set in”. Pam was in charge of writing up the shopping lists and on the bottom of every one was a visit to the new ice-cream shop Trampoline which had only opened 2 weeks ago. We achieved that today just before we returned the hire car and was it worth it? ….yes so good.
Tomorrow we are booked to exit the lock at 0800 and start our big trip. Kyra will fill in the gaps until we make contact again with you all.
Now from Marg: Clive and I are having a ball. As Elaine says it has been quite an education to realize how much provisioning a boat requires for a trip of up to 6 weeks without any intervening shops. We reckoned we’re catering for 200 person days – that’s what’s daunting. Ian and Clive have had lots of boat jobs to do, again an amazing range of normal maintenance tasks. We’ve had sundowners tonight with a pleasant couple very experienced in these waters, who have a commercially produced boat from the same company as Kiella. A small world once more. Having arrived on Wednesday in three layers of thermals, it is fabulous to be warm – the weather is stunning, and the dry has arrived, so no meltdowns in the humidity that Ian
and Elaine had been experiencing till now.
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'Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. They are definitely inferior things, belonging to the vegetable not the animal world, rooted and stationary, incapable of gay transition. The desire to build a house is the tired wish of man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting-place'. - Arthur Ransome
'Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. They are definitely inferior things, belonging to the vegetable not the animal world, rooted and stationary, incapable of gay transition. The desire to build a house is the tired wish of man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting-place'. - Arthur Ransome
'For the truth is that I already know as much about my fate as I need to know. The day will come when I will die. So the only matter of consequence before me is what I will do with my allotted time. I can remain on shore, paralysed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.'
-Richard Bode
-Richard Bode
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