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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 - Touring Bonaire
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Gail at the 1,000 Steps dive site.
Typical terraine of Bonaire.
There is so much cactus in Bonaire, they use it for fenses!
Aloe Vera type cactus.
Another species of cactus.
Another species of cactus.
Yet another species of cactus.
The main inhabitant of the island - iguana!
Indian encryptions in a cave.
Caves with indian inscriptions.
Petrified coral in the limestone.
Driftwood art on the windward side of the island.  The driftwood on the left is all plastic bottles and the one on the right is all shoes.
Wind farm.
Lac Bay wind surfing beach.
Tony at the Jibe City Hang Out Bar.
Willemstoren lighthouse on the southern point of the island.
Description of the original salt production methods.  The obelisks were used to direct ships to the right loading point depending on the salt quality they were buying.
Gail by one of the many slave huts, barely big enough for a person to stand up in, used to house 4 slaves.
The large salt ponds.
Salt pond with pink color due to increased salt content and algae.  Note the pink dots in the photo - those are really flamingos!
Heavy equipment used to load salt.
Conveyor belt and salt piles.
Blue obelisk and the conveyor belt used to load ships today.
Flamingos at the mangrove reserve.
 
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