{"id":6107,"date":"2019-07-01T21:21:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T21:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svtoucan.com\/svtblog\/?p=6107"},"modified":"2019-07-01T22:12:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T22:12:34","slug":"we-gotta-get-outta-this-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/svtoucan.com\/svtblog\/?p=6107","title":{"rendered":"We Gotta Get Outta This Place!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Much as we\u2019ve absolutely loved and cherished our time with Nick and Sally in Cairns, it\u2019s time to leave – our pockets are empty, our waistlines are bigger, and there\u2019s not a spare corner in the boat for any more food, fuel or trading goods!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

We originally thought we\u2019d be here for a couple of weeks but weather and boat jobs put paid to that, so here we are 6 weeks later. And what a busy and social 6 weeks it\u2019s been\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First of all there was the trip to Port Douglas to watch our stunning “Samba” Sally dance at the Carnivale, and the following day a relaxing pool session with some fresh prawns off the trawler for lunch. Yum!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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touching up the make-up before the parade!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shake those tail feathers!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Doesn’t get much fresher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And they were delicious!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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lunch by the pool<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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What a gorgeous couple!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then Rob and Teneile joined us for a week – we\u2019d hoped the weather would allow us get out to the reef for some diving and snorkelling but sadly Huey wasn\u2019t co-operating. Instead we ate lots, went ten-pin bowling, played card games and generally had a great family time. Our \u201c3rd son\u201d, (Nick\u2019s best friend) Nemo also put in an appearance and we put him to use helping us run a new spinnaker halyard down the mast. Thanks Nemo!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sampling the beers at Hemingway’s Brewery with Teneile, Rob, Nemo and Nick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nemo up the mast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A very special family dinner at Bayleaf Restaurant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We also got to catch up with our good mate Sherm, who was in Cairns to join his son Will on board HMAS Success, so of course there was more obligatory eating and drinking!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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re-united with the pirate aka Sherm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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More food! This time $1 oysters at Ellis Beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And I got a special treat one morning when Nick had a spare seat in the helicopter – we got to fly out to Green Island and over the reefs, checking out the manta rays basking on the surface. Just fabulous!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nick in the 505 at Green Island<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Approaching Green Island<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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can you spot the manta ray?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And in amongst all that, we’ve been running around buying spare parts, fixing and repairing stuff, organising travel insurance, visas etc etc etc – you know the drill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But now Toucan is as ready as she can be and it\u2019s time to head off.  The rain finally disappeared a couple of days ago and we were hopeful of a clear day today with no rain on the forecast. But no, it\u2019s now started raining again. Arrghh!  Queensland, you can keep your crappy weather, we won\u2019t miss it one bit! On the other hand, the goodbyes with family are always the hardest part\u2026.hopefully it won\u2019t be too long before we\u2019re reunited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have a date with customs at 10am where we\u2019ll get the official \u2018Bugger Off Out Of Here\u201d stamp and then Louisiade Archipelago here we come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Much as we\u2019ve absolutely loved and cherished our time with Nick and Sally in Cairns, it\u2019s time to leave – our pockets are empty, our waistlines are bigger, and there\u2019s not a spare corner in the boat for any more food, fuel or trading goods!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-svtoucan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6B46t-1Av","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/svtoucan.com\/svtblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/svtoucan.com\/svtblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/svtoucan.com\/svtblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/svtoucan.com\/svtblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/svtoucan.com\/svtblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6107"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/svtoucan.com\/svtblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6119,"href":"http:\/\/svtoucan.com\/svtblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107\/revisions\/6119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/svtoucan.com\/svtblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/svtoucan.com\/svtblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/svtoucan.com\/svtblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}