Helen: It's official. The only people who need crew are either incompetent or complete arseholes. Our current skipper is both. She is rude to us every day and takes advantage of us and has us working for 10 hours most days without paying us. She pretends like she's some helpless sweet old lady, but really she's a vindictive, manipulative bitch. We've all had enough and will jump ship just as soon as we can. Although, judging by our past experience there's no guarantee that the next boat will be any better.
Oh well, gonna have a bonfire and some beers on the beach tonight, as we have the last 2 nights, so can't be all bad. Navigating through the reef with headtorches after a couple of beers is quite a feat! C is getting pretty good at the guitar now and can play lots of Levellers and Wonderstuff songs. And I'm learning the words to Anton's 50s folk songs. C taught me D and G chords the other day too.
Right, have to go, time's ticking by on the old internet counter.
Hx
PS We finally made it to Moorea! Yippeee...
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It crossed my mind that the old dear might be sizing you up when cheating on the games - seeing how far she could push you...
Hope you get a good boat soon. I assume the waters relatively calm in that part of the Pacific?
Eoin
Just back from Scillies - really sorry to hear about all of this. Good news is that I saw the tortoises and they are in fine fettle - especially Humphrey! I had seen Sue over many years of travelling around the islands, so it was nice to chat at last - I stayed to have coffee with her and Murray before he went off to mend his plane!! They sent you both their best wishes. Take care. Much love mummyxx
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