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Cetacea in Australia

12 September 2023
Tony Wessendorff
In March 2023, we flew back to Cetacea in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. We had a bottom job (new paint on the bottom) done in the shipyard. We left PNG in May sailing to Indonesia. Half way there, we had a generator heat exchanger go out, so we ended up sailing to Darwin, Australia, which was the closest place we could get repairs made. We found that we got water in our fuel (in PNG) and it caused other problems as well. We got the engine and generator problems fixed and took off for Indonesia again, only to have more problems. So we boomeranged back to Darwin. We have been in Darwin for almost 4 months now, fixing one thing, only to have another thing break, fixing that thing, only to have something else break. And, each time, it takes weeks to get the parts shipped in. But, we have thoroughly enjoyed our time in Darwin!

Finally, we think we are ready to leave again, scheduled for Friday September 13th, crossing our fingers! We do not keep up with this blog site any longer. We do sporadic email blogs now. If you would like to get on the email blog list, just send me an email (GailCorriganW@gmail.com). But, I will update our position and add at least an annual note on where we are on this blog site.

More Later, much later
G&T
Vessel Name: Cetacea
Vessel Make/Model: Cheoy Lee 53' Motorsailor
Hailing Port: Houston, Texas, USA
Crew: Tony Wessendorff & Gail Corrigan
About:
After 25 fun filled years as an environmental consulting firm owner, Gail sold her company and she and her husband, Tony the CFO, retired to go sailing on their boat Cetacea (see photo gallery). Cetacea was in St. [...]
Extra: P.S. Cetacea is the higher order biological name for whales and dolphins. Whales and dolphins are cetaceans. And our boat is a big fat whale of a boat, hence the name Cetacea! Not to mention that Tony & Gail, like all sailors, love whales.
Cetacea's Photos - Uros Floating Islands, Lake Titicaca, Peru
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View driving into Puno overlooking Lake Titicaca.
View of Puno - not very colorful!
View of Puno.
View of typical Puno street.
View of Puno side street.
View of Puno from Lake Titicaca.
View of our hotel from the lake.
Front entrance of the hotel San Antonio.
Tony at the hotel.
Dinner was wonderful!
View of the sunset over Puno from our hotel.
View of a floating island.
View of the Uros floating island we visited.
Tony on the island and yes you could feel it move.
An example of how they use reeds to build the island, the houses and everything.
Reeds piled up to make a new surface.  They also eat the reeds.
One of their houses where the whole family lives.
View of the inside of a house with one bed made out of reeds with a blanket on top to sleep the parents and children.  Cozy!
Communal kitchen - No we did not stay for dinner!
Two of the women.  I guess on an island of 1-acre, you don
The textiles include pictures of all the family members (including the cat) and the family activities.
Gail with the dragon boats used to fish and to transport the village and houses when needed.
Man moving the dragon boat.
Even the tourists got to go for a ride on the dragon boat!
Note the position of the little girl
Cute little boy.
 
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