cairns
16 May 2012 | marlin marina
15-20 SE wind, clear and sunny
Well once again, us entering a marina berth was cause for stress and anxiety. Wind was right up our russell, we were given a berth that was "blow on" for ease, as we are restricted in our manuverability and first pen from the end for the same reason. Unfortunately we didn't get the bow into the pen before we had blown past. EXTREMELY luckily there was no vessels in the pen next to ours, which resulted in us being in the wrong berth for the night. Hopefully the winds will be low enough for us to move around into the real berth tomorrow, to make it easy for our departure on saturday or sunday. The sail across from fitzroy was very nice, a sort of quartering downwind sort of thing. Once we got round the headland a bit the winds started gusting and dying off so we motored for the last 1.5hrs. We couldn't be bothered working the winds when we were both antsy about the marina. The girls were very good, and nicole swears that elora started to crawl today once we were in marina. I wasn't there for the 2 shuffles and elora would not do it again today. We did however make the day a complete success by having some terrific gelati at "vanilla" the shop at the marina. Alls good now (sugar calms the beast!!). Our new crewmember Kelly arrives at 6 am tomorrow. We've emptied out a few drawers in the back cabin and we are moved back into the front cabin with the girls. Ameliana is very excited that we are going to be there when she wakes up at 4.45am every single damn day. We have very busy next few days geting last stuff organised and provisioned. I'm off at6.30 in morn for a bike trip with trailer in tow to bunnings, locksmith(for engine key which got broken by accident), chandlery, post office, petrol station, Nicole and the girls are off to grocery shops, park for littlies, etc, etc, etc