Day 1 Port Douglas-Bali
At the back end of August last year I was writing about a delivery I was doing of a Dickey Pacific 62 from Opua to Bundaberg. Well I got a call to ask if I was available to take her ("Moonlao") from Port Douglas through to Bali. Luckily I had a small window before I head over to Panama for my next job early next month. So David, my crew mate, and I flew into Cairns on Thursday afternoon, hired a car and drove the 1hr or so to Port Douglas marina where the boat was. We were greeted by Tan and Geoff, spent a a couple of nights with them on the boat which was great fun before we departed and they headed off in the car. There was a "Yellow" cyclone warning issued the day before we arrived but it only turned out to be a bit of a blow so nothing to worry about. Although this boat could make Bali in one go without stopping I decided to clear out of Darwin where we can top up the tanks and the owner has really good quality fuel where as the quality of fuel in Indonesia ...