saltwater persons,
It's a nice sunny spot Darwin. It is winter. Today it was 34 degrees. In the shadow. There are deaths in the summer. We can leave in a few days. Then we are cleared, the ship has been exported and we have to pack up. We're becoming regulars at Lola's where you sit opposite the bar and have a beautiful view of the fashionable young people of this city. Really close to a lot of jungle and those red roads. The people here get tax benefits for coming to live here.
We have already been in an Uber a number of times, which are mainly and only ridden by people from India who already have the next plan ready. To one of the big cities to be able to earn more there. We also meet Dutch people here or people with a Dutch family history. They hear your accent and start asking. It's funny, I can tell the story of the great journey over and over again. We also met a Don Rost in Mackay with his puffin like boat a Nicholson I believe. A retired captain who has sailed Australia's Northern Territory liner services with shallow-draught ships with a disaster that they drop onto an island with no harbor to resupply. One with many stories that soon have something melancholy and describe heroic deeds. Very nice to spend an evening with someone like that and hear all those stories. The next stage will probably take more than a month. Until la Reunion. We stocked up for 6 weeks. Actually, everything is going reasonably well and we have hopefully cleared the most difficult hurdle, which is not about the journey. The entire journey along the east coast was beautiful and also far away, so no network reception and few ports, but now we are really going to the big lake. We would still like to go to Coco's Keeling, but those ozzies already see us coming, just cleared out. So we'll just have to see that. Otherwise on to Reunion. For a croissant and black coffee.
In retrospect I can say that buying a boat in Australia is a real challenge. I have gradually come to face it alone, but with the support of Mark and my highly valued family, I have been able to solve all problems for the time being or put them on hold. However, we are far from there yet. Anything can happen and therefore go wrong, but we have now prepared the boat well and it is under control, so technically it should all be possible. Just make sure we don't have any accidents. Or get buried in today's ever-expanding bureaucratic concerns. Really awful.
Ahoy.
