Day 11 Port Douglas-Bali

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We arrived at the fuel dock outside Cullen Bay Marina at 08:00 spent 2 hrs filling up the boat with 3,605lts of diesel at a total cost of NZ$12,449!  She's now back up to capacity of 4,400lts for the next leg to Bali.

We were ready to enter the marina at 10:30 but to get in you have to go through a lock.  Before you can go though the you have to go through an induction if it is the first time.  After our induction we went into the lock, Ben the operator slowly raised the water level by 3m, gates open and into the Marina we went, onto our berth, plug in the electric and water hook ups then proceeded to have a tidy up and dump the 4 bags of rubbish we accumulated since leaving Port Douglas. 

Once that was done into an Uber and off to Coles the supermarket for a top up shop.  An hour later, A$300 lighter and 4 decent sized bags of groceries it was into another Uber back to the boat.  It is sooo hot and sticky it's nice to get into the AC of as soon as you can.

By the time we had finished all our chores it was time to try out one of the marina bars.  I was amazed to find they had a mango floured beer.  The adventurous side of me couldn't resist, I just had to try it.  It was delicious!  3 pint's later and time for some diner.  

All done and back to the boat for an early night........ 


The lock gates opened for us


A slow entry 

  


Hard working boys in the crazy heat



20m long and only 4.75m wide - helps her fuel efficiency 

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