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| Exmouth/Tantabiddi/Whalesong |
| 07.13.04 (5:46 am) [edit] |
Where was I?
Saturday, June 26th, sunshine, hot, usual weather.
Right--Exmouth. When I met the Jenners at the Exmouth Marina, they were just about ready to get themselves organized for their move over to the Tantabiddi boat ramp. The boat ramp is located 38km away from Exmouth, just north and around the cape, over to the western side of the ranges that are the defining feature of the landscape.
At the Exmouth, Whalesong is refuelled (500litres), takes on water (300l), and that's about it--while the water figure is uncertain, the fuel and water will last for two-three weeks, depending largely on the number of people who are on board and the number of hours that the motors are used.
Miche goes on a major dry food run before leaving their summer residence off of Rottnest island; like the north in Canada, most food goods are higher in price as soon as you get out of the southern growing regions.
Whalesong has nine bunks--although a few of these are not designed with tall or fat people in mind. For myself, I got a good-sized one, so only my backpack had to contend with the more diminutive mattress.
Not only did I now have a bed to sleep on, but a markedly improved diet. My eating pattern in Coral Bay had been nutritious, albeit a bit high in salt. Pancakes for breakfast, with the occasional oatmeal option exercised, with dried apples and cinammon, sugar, reconstituted cream, and brown sugar. Lunch, if I was either near to camp or in the mood to cook, was usually an instant noodle with an instant soup packet dumped in it for good measure. Dinner, a pack of dried pasta with sauce, dried peas, some dried chinese sausage, dried fruit for desert, some butterscotch candy, some shortbread cookies, and jasmine tea for a nite cap.
Lacking, therefore, from my diet was fresh fruit or vegetables, variety, and a whole lot of flavour. I had packed salt, pepper, dried garlic, mixed herbs (oregano, basil, crushed bay leaf), yet these additives just sometimes couldn't revive the dehydrated pastas. Not only that, the instant pasta dinners are somewhat heavy, night after night. In the last two days at CB, I ate just twice a day, deleting the dried pasta from the menu. I can do the instant noodles for quite a while, even eating them for breakfast on several occasions, but those pasta dinners are intense.
That first night onboard Whalesong was great: we had a tomato meat sauce pasta which may sound like little different from what I was eating, but believe me, it was worlds apart from what I was eating. We then capped off the night with a movie (?) and I stayed up way past my bedtime, passing out at 1130pm.
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