'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



Saturday, November 6, 2010

Still in windy Cooktown

Today we should be in Cairns....but the wind has not abated enough for us to head there. Since Wednesday we have walked this town and checked out the museums,Botanical Gardens,markets and have just completed a walk to Grassy Hill and Cherry Tree Bay.A bit hot but good exercise.Tomorrow Sunday we are going to do some punching into the swell and wind and should be at Yorkies Knob about 1700.
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