Thursday Back to Strahan.

Had a cooked breakfast and up anchored,it took well over half an hour to get the mud and weed off the anchor and chain,we had never seen such a big ball on the anchor.Thick sticky mud ,we would never have dragged our anchor in a cyclone.

Three crew up forward with boat hooks and the gaff.Biggs reckoned later we should have put the dinghy in to free it. 

We steamed around to Pillinger and anchored out,went in by dinghy and walked the old railway line and had a look at the shack,some rough repairs have been done.Returned to the boat for coffee and headed for Strahan .

Jetty remains at Pillinger 

Still raining ,passed a couple of boats heading for the river on our way,they might as well as the weather forecast is for bad weather for the foreseably future!

We travelled slowly at 10 knots as I was unsure of how much fuel we had left,not much I thought.

We arrived at the fuel bowser with another vessel,the Liberty  filling up.We tied up beside Stormbreaker and filled the water tanks while waiting.They seemed to be having trouble with the card reading machine,we found out later it must have been on the blink,tried three cards and it did not like any of them,even the bank managers.Mike came to the rescue and we filled up,worked out we had 34 miles of fuel left.Have done 460 miles from the Tamar,must have seen a bit !

The crew went over to the pub for dinner,I stayed on board to try and help Les get the internet sorted at home.One and a half hours later I spoke to a person who was very helpfull and accepted my transferring authority to my daughter to get it going again.

Cheroz arrived to get me as the kitchen was about to close,it was still going two hours later as people trickled in for dinner.Our meals were superb,two seafood fettuccini s ,one fillet steak and one braised wallaby.

Biggs as usual found someone he knew who contracted to the fish farms,they were next to us and come from Dover.

Got back to the boat reasonably early and had a brown sugar before turning in.