idea what will be in it. Arrived on the bike at the GA very early this
morning before breakfast to find the evidence of what must have been a
biggish night even by DH standards - pools and splashes and trails of
technicolour yawn everywhere outside the front door and along the
footpaths. A coupled of hours later, after going back to Berri and
packing and repackinbg the spare laptops and electrical gear behind
the nav station and Eric and the troops have had the fire hoses out
and hosed it all away.
As Steve says in the gustbook, we had a wonderful evening at his house
- mountains of crab, lots of wine and laughter - Whitters completely
knackered after sorting the gearbox as you can see in Steve's pics,
here: http://senseofplace63.blogspot.com
And I'm honoured, Steve, to have my own little spot in your blog.
Maybe I saw the eagle, but it was my nice piece of glass (as Speedy
calls the nik lens) that focussed it and a very clever camera.that
recorded it. I will today post another cd of mostly Ballyhoo pics to
Speeds plus a somewhat used gearbox to John in Sydney.
And Steve gave us his magic silver dollar - which he carried all
around the USA on his motor bike - it's now on Berri's magic wall - He
said we are to buy ourselves a beer when we get to England, but not
before. Thanks Steve. Lovely gift!
Other nice things keep happening - I woke yesterday to find a little
packet of smoked salmon and some dig bosketty things in the cockpit -
no note - but I later found a note floating next to the boat - Thanks
Sue! Dig boskets to be eaten with jam and a cold chisel - chuck the
boskets, jam on the chisel and eat that instead!
Meeting Dave at the boat soon to give him back all the gear he lent us
- I'll keep the bike until this evening if possible for all the
inevitable last minute errands - and we will move Berri to the outside
of the jetty so that we don't get caught by the very low tide tomorrow
morning and can leave at first light. The weather looks good for a few
days but that's now! It changes almost hourly and any forecast more
than a couple of days ahead is largely conjecture.
I'll send this because gmail in basic html (all this link will manage)
tends to drop drafts - there may be another one later.
