Tiny Bubbles -- the prelude to adventureswithboy123
Prior to becoming adventureswithboy123, Heidi and I took off on a 3 year barebones tour of the Pacific aboard our small but sturdy, engineless Pacific Seacraft named "Tiny Bubbles." The following documents those crazy days...
From: Tiny bubbles
Date: 01/02/2006 11:51:00 PM EST
Tiny Bubbles in Oz
We haven't entirely adjusted to all the western comforts to be found here, but we're working on it. Australia has been good to us for the most part. We sailed to Bundaberg on the east coast as our Customs check-in port and arrived on Thanksgiving Day. Of course Aussies don't celebrate Thanksgiving so it didn't amount to much, but we thought it was neat. We entered Port in the dead of night using the well marked, but narrow channel lights as guides. We had to sail up to a dock in order for customs and quarantine to board and clear us. We had heard rumors that Australian quarantine confiscates all your food, so we had been eating ourselves silly trying to clean out our …
From: Tiny bubbles
Date: 01/02/2006 11:51:00 PM EST
Tiny Bubbles in Oz
We haven't entirely adjusted to all the western comforts to be found here, but we're working on it. Australia has been good to us for the most part. We sailed to Bundaberg on the east coast as our Customs check-in port and arrived on Thanksgiving Day. Of course Aussies don't celebrate Thanksgiving so it didn't amount to much, but we thought it was neat. We entered Port in the dead of night using the well marked, but narrow channel lights as guides. We had to sail up to a dock in order for customs and quarantine to board and clear us. We had heard rumors that Australian quarantine confiscates all your food, so we had been eating ourselves silly trying to clean out our …
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