It has now been 67 days since we sailed and we have once again anchored of a port where we were supposed to go alongside. I think many are getting frustrated now because we can see land but we can’t go ashore. As the port had no berth for us we have tweaked our programme slightly as they offered us a berth on the 1st May for 48 hours so we will finally get alongside to load some fresh stores. It does seem strange that we sailed in February and we aren’t going to touch land until May, ah well at least it is sunny.
Over the next few days we have quite a large change over of crew which is going to be strange as there will be lots of new faces onboard; I just hope that the people coming in are as friendly as the people that are going. I always find it a little unsettling when you get use to working with a group and then everyone changes.
As always with this part of the world everything has been a bit of a cluster, we are not allowed to run our own boat to shore so we have been reliant on the harbour tugs to conduct the crew change over. Needless to say the bureaucracy in the port immigration those going home all missed their flights and have so been put into hotels until new flights can be booked.
If and when we do get alongside it is just my luck that I am duty so won’t get ashore the first day and I don’t think I will bother the second day as the country we are going to doesn’t allow Skype so there is no real point of going up the road. Anyway we get into our AMP port the following week and that country does allow Skype so I will be able to get ashore and see the little ones and Debbie which I am looking forward to.
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