We’re willing guinea pigs for Hans, who’s setting up a homestay at Dayang and wants to work out what adventures his guests might like. So we’re more than happy to oblige when he asks us to play tourists for the day.
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When you’re cooped up on a boat with someone 24/7 and there’s scarcely any other company, sometimes the conversation takes a bizarre turn. Any flies on the wall would assume we’ve gone barking mad (and they could be right). A recent topic of conversation on board Toucan started with the question “Do geckos like potato chips”? Before you run screaming for the hills, let me explain….
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Goodness, has it really been two months since the last post? Apologies – in the last couple of months most of our time seems to have been spent shuffling between Sorong and Batanta every couple of weeks. Not by design, but from the necessity of having to do our monthly visa extensions plus ongoing boat maintenance, none of which has been particularly exciting stuff. Still, it’s all part and parcel of the cruising life, so we can’t complain.
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If you’re heading to Raja Ampat, Batanta is the first large island you come to after leaving Sorong. We often use it as an overnight stop on the way to the other islands, but this time we thought we’d spend more time exploring the north coast of Batanta itself. And what a gem we discovered!
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Finally, we escape Sorong. The maintenance jobs are done, and we’re off to do more exploring in the islands. And by some miracle, there’s enough wind from the right direction to put the sails up. Glory be!
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Ah well, there goes the fun for a while. Our trip to Triton Bay was great, but lately it seems we can’t go a week without something else to fix, and having been away for six weeks, well…you get the picture. Some fixes are in the ‘Mayday, Mayday’ red-light-flashing category, and others are in the ‘yeah, we should get around to doing that when we have time’ category. But either way you cut and shut it, there’s no getting away from the dreaded “M” word. So here, Ladies and Gentlemen, in no particular order, are the nominees for Fix of the Month, May 2021:
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