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Doing Time
03 January 2017 | Tual
Returning to Dinghy
Tuesday 3 January 2017
Latest GRIB (Golliwhomper Regurgitation of Indecipherable Bewilderment) shows inception of agreeable weather for Darwin passage has retreated a day. Although Australian Border Force has given its imprimatur to anchoring off overnight before entering port, a night on the quarantine dock until Tuesday appears necessary in any event. A pest inspection and seawater intake pipe treatment will be performed by Bhagwan (Indian for god) Marine, which only operates 9 to 5 and not on Sunday, that will incapacitate the vessel for at least 10 hours while all the evil stowaways die an apparently slow and arduous death. We will, perforce, remain aboard until the following morning listening to their anguished cries.
Above circumstances aggravate nascent stir craziness with expectation for 2 additional days aboard. This was mitigated only slightly by a dinghy dash into Tual for critical eggs and tomatoes just before next 25 knot squall blew through. With little to do except important boat repairs, which are being conscientiously ignored, decided to put photos and a short video on the blog. That's not much fun either. There just isn't enough peanut butter in the world to bridge the gap between coffee and gin. Considering sleeping later and moving happy hour up to 1600, perhaps 1530. It's currently 1528.
Jack