Week Ten Day Sixty Five

Granite Island.


The yacht "Albatros Two"


The refinery from the yacht.


The green poly craft.


John at the helm.

The swimming pool.

"Red sky at night, shepard's delight" really works. We have had a fantastic day on the yacht. Francois's tinny (tender) is getting fixed, so he borrowed this green poly craft. Two trips had to be made to take us and our lunch and backpacks to the yacht.

After doing the jumping crocodiles in Kakadu one has visions of a crocodile leaping out of the water onto this smorgasbord puttering through the water!!!!!! Luckily for us it didn't happen and we all arrived safely on board.

Unfortunately for us there was no wind so our planned destination was shortened to Granite Island. On the way out to the island we sailed past the refinery, quite disturbing when you see this man made monster against the majestic scenery all around it.

Francois handed over the sailing to John, who had great fun getting us to Granite Island where we dropped anchor. After lunch, the idea was to take the tender to the island and explore......... None of us could be bothered. So we dropped the "swimming pool" that Francois had made, and went for a swim. This "swimming pool" is made out of aluminium and shade cloth. The strength of the aluminium, for the crocodiles and the shade cloth, for the box jellyfish.

After a lovely afternoon, we started back for home. Now when we were under sail, we had two fishing rods trawling off the back of the boat. On the way back we had a bite, a Blue fin tuna, great. Jillian was making sushi for tonight, so fresh fish. As luck (for the fish) would have it, as John lent out to gaff it, it got away. No more bites after that.

This evening we went to a 60 th birthday party. The birthday was for Richard Trudgen, the author of "Why Warriors Lie Down and Die". He started work in Arnhem land with Yolngu people in 1973. It is wonderful to experience a piece of a persons life, who has followed the Lord through the hardships that Richard and his family have experienced. There was so much peace amongst Richard, his wife Hazel and their five children. Happy Birthday Richard.

Hope's Blog............ I had great fun on the yacht. We were allowed to crawl through the windows, which was fun. I also liked to lie on the trampoline, when we went fast the waves wet us.