Sunday, 12th September 2010
We had rain all night, around here they think the monsoons are coming early, ohhhhh, bleedin lovely. That's all we need, a continuous warm shower all the way to Cocos Islands.
We had a slow relaxing morning, and the first thing on the agenda for today is the check out procedure at 09.30......... This took just about half an hour. We got our ships clearances, but as Neill was on another Island overnight, he will have to do a special sitting tomorrow morning before we leave.
An hour later we were off again in the taxi to Carrefour supermarket to do a major shop, as we basically have to have enough food to take us as far as Mauritius, a total distance of 2,500 miles with a stop at the Cocos Keeling Islands for a few days on the way. However, they have basically nothing there, and what they do have will be very expensive. The shopping took 3 hours, and of course we had a coffee and an ice cream to boot.
15.00hrs We arrived back to A Lady and spent an hour storing and shelving all the food and dry goods in the deep freezer, in the presses, in the wet locker, under the floors, under and behind the seating in the saloon, where ever we could find space.
17.00hrs Terry and Skipper went to the Skippers briefing at the yacht Club, presented by Rally control, Paul and Susanne.
18.30hrs We all went for drinks on Tucanon. You know, the couple from England, and later went off in a taxi again in the rain to Lucatu for dinner. We found a great restaurant with lots of dancing shows and super music. We all ordered crispy duck the object of this trip, and would you believe that what we got was more like "crispy dog" than "crispy duck" yach, yach.
22.00hrs Exhausted from eating dog, we got a taxi back to the marina and had an early night in our dog box. Oh, I nearly forgot the night caps, short and sweet...
Into the scratchers and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
That's all.
Signed :- Stephen Hyde (Skipper)