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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 - Sacsayhuaman Ruins, Cusco, Peru - Nov 14, 2013
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The entrance to the site - note one of the many ways to spell the site name.
The Inca King that built Sacsayhuaman.
View of the site from a distance showing the 3 walls surrounding the site.
View of the site from a distance.
Close up view of the 3 walls.  The area with a roof is where they are doing a new excavation.
View of the wall made with the largest stones at the bottom, fit so tight you couldn
Gail and Tony trying to keep warm and dry.
Tony and our guide, Magda, near the largest stone weighing more than 150 tons.
View of another side of the site.
View walking between the walls.
Entrance to the top of the site.
View of the foundation remnants from the buildings on the top of the site.
View of a ceremonial area.
View of a ceremonial stone table where they sacrificed animals frequently, and humans only in emergency times like doubts, earthquakes, etc.
View of the area where they had large celebrations and still do every June 24th.
Suri Alpaca enjoying the day at Sacsayhuaman.  The baby could barely walk and must have been less than a week old.
View of a statue overlooking Cusco that you can see from the top of Sacsayhuaman.
 
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