Had breakfast ,cereal and fruit finishing off with a couple pieces of toast.
Rod and Mick fixing the rear engine room and toilet light.Mick walked over to where a fellow was working on his boat and asked where he might get a 24 volt globe.Nowhere around here he volunteered ,hang on I might have a couple here ,gave him two.
The neon tube was a bit harder, the hardware shop was about a mile away,he got the wrong one so had to swap it over,we were up near there by then getting a few last minute supplies and stopped off for a coffee on the way back,Mick joined us there.
Back to the boat and put the stuff away.
Rod hard at it working out what has to be done .We all went back up to the pub for a light lunch.On the way there are a couple of memorials.one with very good bronze busts to commemorate the meeting between Boudin and Mathew Flinders out in Encounter Bay just here ,I am amazed to think they met as we have steamed all this way and only met about four or five boats along the way !
The other one horours 30,000 Chinese who arrived here to walk to the goldfields,surely a daunting journey.
We had a team meeting earlier on and decided to leave at about four pm.
The plan is to follow the coast along to Portland and then take the East coast of King Island and then a Cooks Tour of the Tasmanian North coast as a predicted S to SW wind is expected.How close we go in will be determined by the sea conditions,through Banks Straitand down the East coast to home.
There was some rain while we were in the pub and as the view is over the sea we could see a moderation in the weather. Just giving a bit more time to quiten down and we will be off.
Some are having a short snooze before departing ,both Biggs and Rod have a touch of Cheroz's cold picked up on the plane.
The boat at Robe Marina ,the Memorials and old Customs house on the lookout.
Copy of the voyage plan at the moment.
Should be home Friday at lunch time if all goes to plan.
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