Graptolite - Wind and Toad Generator

16:55.23S 14:46.91W Sunday 10th August Cairns Marlin Marina

It's been a busy week. Colin left the boat as planned to reenter real life with Belinda. Thanks Colin. It's been good having you along and I'm sorry to see you go.

Australian brother Duncan joined on Monday as crew to Darwin as did son Tom currently on his own World tour by air (Colorado, Hawaii, Queensland). Duncan was put to work fixing things on the boat and even seems to have fixed the busted generator.

A night out on Wednesday in Cairns took us to that prestigious floodlit sporting event - Cane Toad Racing. Only in Australia.

All of us went diving on the Great Barrier Reef yesterday. It was the first time for Tom. He seems to like it. The water was cold though. Who would have expected that in the Tropics? The weather here has taken a turn for the worse and there are high winds forecast. That, combined with delays getting
stuff fixed, is holding us and everyone else up here in Cairns.

Today, Sunday, we took a drive north up the coast to Daintree National Park. No kangaroos. No koalas. We came back through Port Douglas and Yorkeys Knob and had a few XXXX's on the way.

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