stop over at Hillary's

We sailed, or should I say, motored 25% of the way, to Hillary's on Thursday morning. No wind to speak of when we left Mindarie, then up she came to 21knots. We were doing over 6knots with just the main up. We arrived just as the Thursday morning race was finishing and all the mains being dropped along with ours, then into the relative calm of the Hillary's marina.  We followed "Sana ii" in and waited for "Sally Mallay" to berth as she was in the pen near the visitors jetty. The plan was to tie up on the visitors jetty, attend the cruising meeting that night and spend the night there.
As we were tying up "Coco" followed us in to tell us there was a pen near them, but as we were already tied up decided to stay where we were.
Bob had joined us that morning to sail down with us and was staying over as well. As he said, it would remind him of old times when he would go and sleep on his yacht years ago.
We were greeted by the "Maitre D" of Pinky's to see if we would be needing lunch. Always makes us feel like visiting VIPs.
The racing fraternity all gathered at Pinky's for their after race catchup, so we went across and joined them for a drink. We then returned to M2 for our lunch which Laura had very kindly made for us.
A walk across to Hillary's Marina to get Bob some crock thongs, then back to boat to get cleaned up and ready to join the mtg that night.
A very good meeting with Dan & Katrina giving us a glimpse of their crossing of the Tasman, then a couple of others giving us a view of their trips. Time then to pack up and back to the boat with Rita, Brian, Grant and Ann joining us for coffee.
It was midnight when we retired to our bunks, a bit difficult to go to sleep after a few coffees through the day, but finally nodded off.
Woke in the morning to the tide having dropped a couple of feet and what had been an extremely easy exit from our boat to the jetty became a challenge for me. Managed it with a little help from hubby and offered thanks for floating jetties at Mindarie.
It was motor all the way back to Mindarie, I was feeling rather tired, so climbed into my bunk and lay enjoying the motion of the boat. Absolutely no wind when we came into the marina and Meridian ii behaved herself beautifully while being penned stern first. Then it was coffee pot on and a batch of muffins into the oven to celebrate a most enjoyable couple of days.