THE FOLLOWING ENTRY WAS WRITTEN BY Phil, Captain of Happy Ours, the boat I’m ‘crewing’ on to Thailand why Salsa waits for me in Bali for a few months.

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

It’s check out day but before we attempted that I wanted to repair a broken wire up the mast, best done in the morning when it’s cool and I have not eaten (I barely fit in my old harness these days). Checking out was the same ludicrous run around as checking in, running from offices that are here and there and collecting official stamps. One guy stamped my 5 forms 5 times each and then had to write on each side of all of them. I later had to photocopy them all. More paper to push. It was three o’clock when we had finished – though we did have a fantastic lunch for about two quid. And we picked up all the copied guides from a copy shop. We collected all the rich cruisers guides to Thailand (up to $120 each) and had them photo copied and bound – very impressive. And about $5 per book.

Kirk’s leaving party is taking place at the warung Ebu (Our local little hang out bar and that roughly translates to; mum’s little shop) at 5. All the cruisers were there and some brought dips and chips. The warung bought in extra beer and we all had a pretty good night. Kirk was presented with a bottle opener and a certificate for ‘fastest Darwin – Bali, fastest single hander’ etc. Read the rest of this entry