Tuesday 3rd April Drive to Kudat:
Another glorious hot sunny day without a cloud ion the sky, car loaded to the roof we set off for the 3.5 hr drive to Kudat.  Slight delay we have a parking ticket all of .25cents!  We drive around looking for the meter guy and pay our dues which we get a receipt for, one would hardly think it worth the paperwork! Half way we stop for fresh coconuts to drink and bananas to munch on, the road was relatively quiet and we arrived without any mishaps!

Spent the remainder of the day unpacking the car and the boat out of its mouldy dusty moth balls!  So hot we headed into town to our favourite place for ABC's to cool us off and then back again in the evening to the markets for dinner.

Wednesday: Started with Chris having to remark a couple of exams and answer a few emails, so I cleared my messages too, it was lunch time by the time we got down to some real work.

  The oil of cloves must have done the trick last time as the inside of the boat is virtually mould free but I will re go over everything to make sure it stays that way.  Chris set about preparing the diesel tanks for painting it is a 3 step process  while I started scrubbing the decks in bertween assisting Chris.  In the past Chris has had Johny clean prior to our arrival however he has just got a job working on a government boat and we really miss his excellent cleaning skills :-(.  

We didn't make it into town for dinner as I think I got dehyrated and just managed a few vegemite crackers, a cuppa and collapsed into bed!

Thursday: Kirsty's birthday but being 2 hours behind and she had to start work at 7.00am we had to wait all day before we could call her.  The day progressed well pretty much a repeat of yesterday - on the computer until nearly lunchtime answering emails etc.  Worked until 7.30pm cleaned up and walked into town for dinner.  

We decided on the Chinese on the waterfront which was not as far as our other favourite eating place the Indian in town.  Celebrated for Kirsty with two tall icy cold tiger beers and enjoyed delcious dishes of ginger prawns, mixed garlic veges and rice - oh so cheap $13 for the lot!  Lovely evening, cools off  with a gentle breeze blowing.  Many locals out enjoying fishing along the waterfront, karaoke, eating, drinking etc.  We ended up having dessert lightly battered deep fried bananas and ice teas - just as well we had a 20 minute walk back to walk our over indulgence off - but oh so nice.