Yawn!!

Hello again... well the reason that I haven't been writing in is because there's been nothing to say!! It's my 15th birthday on the 7th, in a week!! We've all been spending our days doing school and then going to the pool in the evenings. It's been pretty boring, but at least I'm getting tones of school done! C'ya

It's me again

Hellooo, it's me again. Well at the moment we're still in the Vunda Marnier, with lots of school work to be done. The yacht Aussie Oi left today and early tomorrow morning another yacht is leaving (we have spent a lot of time with both boats). Goodbye Sowelu, if I don't get to see you tomorrow!!!! Baden and Fletcher are going in for a hair cut tomorrow also. There's nothing else happening really!!

Ok, I'm back...

Race week was tones of fun, thanks to all those who went to all that effort to make the week so much fun. And thanks to the fleet who made Musket Cove Race Week of 2007 the largest one ever(there were 89 yachts I think!!). There were races and games, BBQs and parties. At the end of race week I got a pretty bad cold, but I'm over it now(thank god!). Well it's late I'd better go. C'ya!

MUSKET COVE RACE WEEK

I'm sorry I haven't written for so long... But I've been kinda busy, today dad and I raced the hobbie cats and won both times (we did a fun race as well as the real one) and yesterday was Pirate Day. I've got to go but I'll tell you all about it later!

Tip in case you go crown-of-thorning!

At the moment I'm reading up about the Crown of thorns starfish. I realised that I knew hardly anything about them and yet I'm killing them. I figured that I should know my enemies!!! Well if you ever touch or step on a COT(crown of thorn) the best (and only that I know) is to allow the COT to suck out the poison by turning it the other way up and allowing the suction cup leg things to suck on the infected area. It sucks all the poison out with out leaving a scar!!! I'd have 3 other scars if it wasn't for some quick thinking form my cousin Amele. When I accidentally touched a COT (long story) I had 2 spines on my middle finger and one on my pointing finger, there were a few lose spines to, but we just pulled them off. We were out snorkeling and it was kinda choppy, someone needed the dingy so we were on our way in. Amele and I were piling the COTS on our (it's kinda like a gaff with a big wooden handle, and the hook at the end is bent at a right angle.) spear thing. I would get the COTS out and Amele would pile them on hers, then when hers becomes full I'd start to pile them on mine. I was trying to get out a big COT from some staghorn coral, I came up to get a breath and when I headed back down my fingers swept the COTS on Amele's... lets just call it a gaff! The pain was ecruciating, my fingers were hot and I could feel the poison. Amele immediately told me that I had to let the COT suck out the poison... well I thought she was nuts, but I knew she was right. So we were out at the edge of the reef in slightly choppy seas, with a strong current. Amele was holding my hand against the underbelly of a COT (if you've ever seen the underbelly of a starfish, it's like that but the sticky, leg things are 10 times bigger!!!!!). The pain in my fingers immediately eased up, after that we headed into shore. There was one spine that slid down the side of my finger that I hadn't known about, I could feel it but not see the spine. Anyway to make a long story short, the blue poison that the COT sucked out were fine, they healed up with out a trace. But as for the spine, my middle finger now has a dint in the side from where the spine was. I eventually lanced it my self (because I wasn't convinced that there was no spine in it) and pulled out the 2cm end of a COT spine. Well better go!

Now Navini

We've been at Navini Island for a few days know. Dad and Nigel left for their kite surfing trip this morning. Um... There's nothing else that’s been happening really. Mum, Fletcher, Baden, Geordie(our cousin) and I went out crown-of-thorning(crown-of-thorning is when you've got a plank of wood with a long piece of metal, curved and sharpened at the end, attached. You hook the thorny starfish in the center and put them in a large bucket, which is in the dingy. When the bucket is full you go ashore and bury them) today, I was a little bit nervous about them and I was always checking to make sure that no one was near me with crown of thorn starfish. I hate Crown of Thorn starfish, they eat all the coral, are poisonous, they look realy ugly to, there's really nothing good about them. WARNING: do not touch them, they are poisonous and they hurt... Trust me I know from experince!

30th post celebration!

This post will be exactly 30 posts from when I first started the blog! Happy Birthday Blog! anyway, down to business. Well now we're back in Vuda mariner, only for a couple of days because dad's friend is coming out and their going to take the boat on a little 'kite surfing safari'. Mum, Baden, Fletcher and I are going to move onto Navini for the week they've got the boat, then it's RACE WEEK!!!!!! I can't wait till race week it's going to be tones of fun, there's so many yachts here - Vuda is basically full! and if race week isn't fun... then I'm going to make it fun!