We get up on the
morning of Sunday 16th September and head down to The Strand to walk
along the waters front. There are a lot
of other people out and a number on the water including small catamarans and
laser boats sailing close to shore and the general atmosphere of people is
relaxed. We have a nice morning walk
then head back past the marina and into
Flinders street and come across the Sunday markets. They are fairly small but seem quite good
with a variety of nick knacks. We have a
good look around but don’t buy anything.
Time to head back
to the marina and we have a walk down a few arms to nosey about on what boats
are around. There are a few for sale but
none under $75,000.
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| Chris washing Mingo |
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| Andrew cleaning Mingo |
Now its bath time
for Mingo so we spend the rest of the day pulling all the goggles and snorkels,
chairs, fishing rods, ropes, and anything else that has been in sea salt water
and put it outside of Mingo to give it a good wash in fresh water. Then we get the broom out and give Mingo a
good scrub and hose down. There is a lot
of salt build up, having not been washed for 12 weeks. Everything you touch you get this layer of
salt on your hands and fingers and can see on the back canopy the layer of
white salt.
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| Chris giving Mingo a good scrub |
After Mingo is
washed down we put the GPS etc. away safely and the jerry cans go up into the
fly bridge. A productive day but nothing
special really.
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| Bilge pump working again |
We head over to Bias Boating on Monday morning as when we were cleaning Mingo yesterday the bilge kept getting stuck on. So we have to replace it. Not an expensive exercise and a good thing it’s happening now and not a few weeks ago. Andrew fits the new bilge, good as new again and we flush the motor with fresh water then head out in the tinny to have a look around the waterways of Townsville. We head out of the harbor but its very choppy so to rough to take the tinny out, so instead we motor around the marina then head back to Mingo and pack up ready to leave for Brisbane tomorrow.
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