Wind 20 – 25 knts

Woke up to a blustery day again. Morgan and I took a slow ride interspersed with ball throwing seesions along the path to the Fat Frog cafe at Cannonvale. John joined us an hour later and we enjoyed another lovely breakfast.

That was it for John for the day as his bum muscles were too sore for him to do anything, even the ride killed him so he retired to the couch for the day.

I hitched a lift to the supermarket with Paul and Kathy and stocked up on what was needed including six bottles of red.

The shopping process as follows is fairly tedious as we are so far from the car park and the trolleys are rather large :

• Go to office and sign out for a key to an allocated trolley
• Load groceries into trolley
• Take trolley along path and down steep ramp approx 500 metres
• Unload groceries
• Take trolley along pontoon and back up steep ramp to trolley parking area, another 500 metres
• Return key to office

Hope it doesn’t sound like I’m complaining as I’m not, I’m just explaining how chores take on a different meaning in the nautical world.

A call  from Whitsunday Home Hardware informed us our stripper arm had arrived ( not bad for overnight from Brisbane) so I rode to Cannonvale to pick it up, To look at it it doesn’t deem much but at $300 its a rather expensive item that we cant do without.

John was able to move enough to fit it back onto the winch so pulling the anchor should be much faster and less stressful execrcise. Fingers crossed!

Happy hour on Moor R & R turned into a happy several hours as it was possibly the last time we shall all be together for long while.

Rob and Lesley are staying in the Whitsundays till Sept when they head to the States for a sailing trip down the Intracoastal waterway with a friend. They will leave their boat in Bowen till the end of Sept. Deb and Bryan are going to Hamilton for a couple of days and Moor R & R will go north for a day or two then back down to the islands to take Kath’s sister and husband for a look around the Whitsundays.

Back to the cricket at 9:30.