After a bit of a sleep in and a late breakfast, I decided to
fill my main fuel tank with all our spare fuel so we can take our empty jerry
cans into Kalumburu to be filled.
While poring the second jerry can into the tank, to my shock
and horror, I saw water and muck going into the tank. I have a water
separator/filter funnel, but I wasn’t using it as I assumed this fuel to be
clean. I used my filter funnel for the rest of the fuel and there was a lot of
water and muck caught in it when finished.
The water and muck that got into the main tank should be caught
in my primary filters/water separators, so I hope I don’t have any problems in
the future. When I get to Darwin, I will put some additive in the tank to
disperse the water and kill any bugs that might start growing in there.
While I was filling the tank, a bloke came over for a visit
from the other yacht in the bay. It was Bruce from the yacht Lizard. We chatted
for quite some time and then decided to catch up around the camp fire tonight on the
beach.
I spent the afternoon catching up on my blog and doing boat
jobs and then around 17:00 we headed into the beach to go and find the park
manager to make arrangements to go into Kalumburu tomorrow morning to buy fuel
and groceries. We found Joy (the managers wife) and organised to leave for Kalumburu
at 07:00 tomorrow, then we headed off up the beach to find Bruce and the
campfire.
The camp fire belonged to Peter and his son Daniel. Peter had
flown his plane in from Kununurra for a few days R&R. He was a FiFo vet and a hell
of a nice guy.
Bruce had his crew member Luke with him and we enjoyed a fun
night laughing and telling stories around the camp fire and it was nice to get
off the boat for a change and do some socialising.
At some time, late in the evening we said our good byes and
headed off into the dark back to Sirocco and had a great sleep as the anchorage
was very calm and protected.
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