We've been aboard for over a month now. I'm wondering if working really hard, then moving and working really hard, packing, shifting, sorting, storing taking, setting up, working still and on it goes. Then suddenly having a fairly relaxed lifestyle and you just nearly die really is a thing, I thin it might be, we're pretty farked.
Hoople has been in hospital with stafflicocus, they didn't know it was staff until he was home. Wow he was so miserable and uncomfortable it was horrible for him. Plus you've gotta spend hours in a chair with them, because leaving them to the horrors of hospital life would be a bit harsh.
I hurt my back, but I'm getting better at kayaking, well that part is easy and getting off at the ramp is easy, but getting off on a pontoon is way harder. If I can tie front and side and keep it still I can stand enough to get to the pontoon, but if it's mobile because of dingies tied there, it's really hard so I go to the ramp, then have to drag the kayak to a sign and lock it there. That's how I hurt my back, but I am getting fitter and more able.
Hopefully Hoople will be up for some stuff soon and we can go to out to look for whales. I don't know how long the mogration is.
I've realised I need to let people know we're not set up for people to stay over and we go out for a few days at a time. I'll let them know when we're ready for a day trip. Everyone wants to come out on your boat, that's probably a nice thing to do, but it means preperation and seats n food n drinks....
I like being out here on our own most of all.
I'm loving it but we haven't actually made the galley functional yet, it's ok to knock up a quick meal, and our oven/stove is beautiful, we just need to get settled and it will take longer here as there is so much work to do.
I'm so looking forward to getting to Port Douglas and settling there, but I need to keep working to pay for fixing cars and keeping stuff going, Hoople needs to buy stuff like, desalinator, wind generator, air con, new toilet system, ours is old and noisy and I hate the toilet. But it's happening, and Hoople has put his name down to race, so that will make it better for him.
Ok boat work to do.