Yesterday morning, Tracy put on her scuba gear and headed down to the prop to clean off all the huge barnacles we've had growing down there since we launched back in November. It's unlike we have ever seen before. My mistake as I said before was to coat the prop with bottom paint instead of lanocoate. It took close to an hour but she got it all done as well as cleaning the other metal pieces on the hull--through hulls as well as the straps that hold the rudder to the keel. All were a mess with there even being a piece of plastic in the through hull that supplies water to the engine. It's all nice and clean now but she also found that the zinc that's attached to the prop was pretty well shot with big chunks out of it. We'd just put it on when we were in Kudat. It's only been about 4 months on a zinc that should have lasted a good year. All we can guess it that there was some stray current in the marina in Kota Kinabalu. It's the only place we have been where there are lots of boats. While snorkeling earlier today, I replaced it with a new one. After lunch, we both strapped on our scuba gear and headed down to one of the reefs that Tracy found under us as she was cleaning the prop. A fun dive with lots of fish of all types and sizes. Many we have not seen before. I even found a turtle wedged under a shelf of coral. There was no way he was going forward and a piece of coral had fallen down beside him that I had to pry out. Eventually I grabbed his shell and pulled him free. Was he actually stuck? I have no idea but it took some work to get him free He wasn't a big turtle but he looked at us and then swam away as fast as it could. After getting back on board, and getting cleaned up, we had a nice relaxing evening watching shows on the computer. This morning, we pulled up the anchor and set off for the main town to check out. We were told by both the Jabatan Laut as well as Customs that they were open seven days a week. When we got to the marina, Jabatan Lauts office was all closed up. Tracy stayed there while I hiked to the ferry terminal. It was also deserted. So I hiked down to their main offices and found not only was Customs closed but so was Immigration. All three had assured us that they were open 7 days a week. Taking advantage of being on a duty free island, we stoped at one of the local stores on the way back to the Marina and bought a case of beer as well as a case of cokes. Add on two bottles of wine and we were set. Still no Jabatan Laut at the marina when we returned. We hopped into Puff and the engine roared to life and promptly quit. I pulled and pulled and it started and quit again. We waited a short while and tried it again and eventually it fired up. While we had been waiting, I talked to another cruiser at the marina that just happened to be working on his outboard. He came down and looked at ours, traced the fuel line and it's filters and thought that the only thing that could be wrong was bad fuel. We filtered it when we put it in the tank and it goes through two more filters before it get to the carburetor so we really hadn't a clue as to what might have been wrong. Eventually we got it started and roared back to Zephyr. We thought we might spend the night anchored off the main town but it was so rolly that we decided to head back for Monkey Bay where we are now. As I sit here in the cockpit we are watching 18 monkeys walking down the beach in shallow water as the tide is out. We saw several yesterday but no where near this many. Tomorrow, we will again head for town and get checked out and head south again. It's time to move on.