8 Apr 2006

Into the Rip!

It’s Sunday afternoon and 3 hours to departure. (at last hooray!!!) Just waiting for slack water and we will be making our way throught The Heads and on our way to Refuge Cove. We estimate that it will take us 17-18 hours. The weather is looking good for the next 24 hrs so hopefully it will be smooth saling. I’ll take my sea sick pill though just to be sure.

We’ve been here at QCYC for six days with the kangaroos, black swans and pelicans with a bus trip into Geelong on Thursday (had to go to Pizza!!!) thrown in. It’s all very nice but now it’s time and good weather so we’re off!!!

We have enough of everything on board to last at least 2 weeks so that if the weather isn’t good we will wait it out in Refuge. Mike and I walked from Q’cliff to Pt. Lonsdale on Friday (8kms round trip) as Mike felt the 120 lts of diesel we had on board wasn’t enough and we really did need another 10lts. which Mike carried all the way back in his backpack. We were both very tired and footsore when we finally arrived back at the boat, not having done much in the way of exercise in the past week! So Mike has conned Lorraine and Jane at different times to take him back to Pt’ Lonsdale for extra petrol (for the generator) and extra two stroke (for the outboard)

This will probably be the last entry for a little while as we wont have internet access at Refuge Cove. But as soon as we do you will hear from us and hopefully it will all be dolphins, bright stars and calm seas.