Saturday, January 30, 2010

Day 6

Siting in Walvis Bay on a swing mooring near the Yacht club.
 Its great to be in calm waters, I feel 'normal' again. 
We filled the 75 small 27l plastic containers and the 
460l bladder tank with Diesel. Quite a mission but soon 
they were all packed away and the spiled Diesel 
washed away. We averaged 1 liter per naut. mile for 
the trip up of 676nm which is what Rob had calculated. 
Ave speed was 8 knotts. The engines are changed 
every 6 hours which means the couple not on duty 
can sleep peacefully.
Watched the movie 'Australia' last night, great movie,
enjoyed by all.
Went to see the salt works which stretch for miles,
with huge trucks carting the sparkly white salt. 
Lots of bird life along the way with many Flamingos.
 Also went to Dune 7 where we chatted about all the 
Desert Run tours we did to here. Krazni did the best 
and walked the highest up the dune...not far.
Its still cloudy and cool. Tomorrow we hit Swakopmund
for a good German breakfast!

1 comment:

  1. Hi Guys

    Its so cool to see your progress. The GPS settings you post I input onto Google earth and it goes right to the dot on the ocean its very amazing. I will send a pic of it

    Cheers

    Keith

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