Well we didn't get away as we planned. I had started the motor to check things were still alright and after about 3 minutes the oil light came on. One of the oil lines had a hole in it, so we ordered a new one on Friday afternoon. The amazing thing was that it arrived at the post office on Monday morning. So with that installed we left this morning on the high tide, about 6:00am. We had a great sail with light winds and arrived in Iluka harbour at 6:00pm. There was heaps of dolphins, they had a great time coming up to the boat and getting everyone excited before going for a fish and coming back for another play. We sailed all the way except for the last half hour, we just wanted to get anchored before it got too dark. Once inside the Clarence River we went straight to the Iluka harbour and went straight to the hotel for a meal and a couple of drinks.
Once again everyone felt a little queasy from seasickness, except for me. This time I knew that i may have to have my head in the motor so I took a couple of tablets and laughed at everyone laying about.
Tomorrow we'll have to go to the other side of the river to Yamba and haul out the boat and we have left our car in Ballina, so we will have to figure out a way of bringing it down here.
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at long last i thought the tree trunk roots had finally taken hold soon we will be on an adventure
grumps
ps say hi to fore gone and plonker
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