Preparations in place for the sail to Quindalup tomorrow morning. It was initially just the two of us, but now, son, daughter and a friend have jumped on board, so it will be a straight sail through with no stop overs.
Yesterday we went to the boat to fuel up, lets not go there, stinking hot day, too much wind, so decided not to do it just then, I suggested waiting for Bob on Thursday night and doing it in the cool, but Kat offered to help us, so Frank decided to go ahead. She was feeling very poorly and shouldn't have been out in the sun at all. Bette and I ( Bette is visiting from Canada and isn't used to this heat) headed for the airconditioning in Dome and icey drinks. I stood by to grab ropes as they came alongside the fuel jetty. After all the hassle, she only needed 6 lts of fuel, so Frank was not popular. Kat, Bette & I decided we needed retail therapy after penning the boat so back to the boardwalk and bought a couple of items, then headed back to the boat to find a soaking wet, thunder faced hubby. He had told us it wasn't important to put the rope on the centre cleat as she was secure enough and we all went over to Dome for some much needed food. While we were shopping he tried putting it on by himself, slipped, went overboard almost hitting his head. Thankfully he was not injured, but has pulled a groin muscle. Another phone needed now, his trusty little note book with all his to do jottings in got a good soaking, wallet to be dried out and hopefully the car keys still operate.
By this time, we were so hot and grumpy we decided to just head on home and sort things out there in the cool. My first thing was to jump in the pool and cool off.
It was his turn on the sea rescue radio that night, so got that all up and running and I headed for bed.
Tomorrow it is food shopping for the trip now that we have five POB's, and buy a new phone.
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