Wednesday 23 November 2011:
8:00 Final packing and panic attacking getting ready to go to the airport. 2 months of negotiation, lawyers and miracles are finally concluded, I'm off to get the boat.
11:00 Take off for Cairns. Lucky me, I get to sit next a guy that should really have two or three seats to himself. Never mind, nothing like sharing.
12.50 Land in Cairns and spend a quality hour observing Japanese flights arrive. Hmm...
13.20 Take off to Weipa at last, sitting next to a young fella that is well dressed and sporting dreaddies.... Ew. He pretends to be asleep for the whole flight and I try to avoid anything trying to escape the hairy ecosystem sitting next to me. ...Ew.
14.50 Tony, former owner of Nysa and truly helpful gentleman, picks me up from the airport and we go out to the boat. I'm such a happy boy right now. She's a beauty and she belongs to me. :)
18:00 Boat inspections and introductory systems tutorial finished, we go to dinner at the bowls club. The food was poor and the service worse.
20:00 Tony goes through the navigation charts with me, I'm so tired by now that little sinks in.
22:00 Bed
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking, And a grey mist on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking.
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