Intervew with a vampire

I just finished watching 'Interview with a Vampire', I love the eyes. I know how they did it because in a shop called PINK, in cairns, there were these contacts that make your eyes look different colours. They were really cool, and really expensive. But there were so many different options for example you could get ones that make your eyes look completely white or black, cat eyes, stripes, circles, tonnes. We didn't leave today, maybe tomorrow, but to tell the truth I don't really mind because I'm way behind in my school work and in the past 2 days I've done 2 Units of English (like 4 weeks worth of lessons). That's about all.... C'ya

Steve Irwin.....

Nothing much happened today, I got a lot of work done though. Man, I just finished watching Steve's Memorial Service on DVD, and I had only gone though one tissue(which I though was pretty good) then I clicked on the interviews with Steve and his family. At the end his dog ... Sui? Got a form of cancer in her head, she had to be put down and died in bed with Steve. That was when the tissues got a real work out. I can handle people deaths(as long has there not that close to me) but when someones animal dies, and their really close... I can't handle it as well, which is kinda annoying seeing as I wanta become a vet!!!! C'ya Steve Irwin. You will be missed. But now your with your mum and beloved Sui.

Catch up

Ok, were back from Fetuna.... Well to tell the truth we've been back for a while. We had a great crossing over, so good that we had a barbe on the back during sunset! While we were trying to anchor we lost one of our propeller blades.... The anchorage was REALLY crappy to, we had a massive swell rolling in. No one there spoke much English and the bank only opened once a month so we could change our money(they use Franks over there). Mum found 5 franks on the floor though... Mum and Dad finally found a few places that could take credit cards luckily. The whole time(almost) Dad spend searching for the $600 propeller blade in water that you can't see which way is up, it's so murky. Needless to say he didn't find it..... The crossing back was terrible, massive waves but thankfully it was hitting our side this time, almost downwind. The surfing was hella fun though, you would stand up(preferably holding on) and then the boat would surf a massive 3 meter wave!!!! YEAH. Anyway where back in Savu Savu now and have been waiting on the new propeller blade to come though the past week. It arrived 2 days ago and Dad attached it on underwater. We're just charging up the boat at the warf now so we can head off soon.

Wallis and Fetuna

Tomorrow we're going to head out to Wallis and Fetuna, these two french Polynesian islands outside of Fiji. There probably won't be any Internet out there, so I won't be on for a few weeks. And to all mi friends that read this DON'T FILL UP MY HOTMAIL WITH JUNK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When we found a place to check the hotmail in the Solomons my hotmail was full of junk mail, all FWDs!!! Well there's not much else to tell, um, my brothers are being really annoying? Anyway C'ya

Wahoo

A couple of days ago we left Ellington wharf and had a great sail to a village somewhere. On the way we saw a 2/3 meter Marlin jumping out of the water, and heading toward the boat. The Marlin only stoped jumping a meter away and we saw it swim off. The same day we caught a nice sized Spanish Mackerel. Yesterday we left the village and headed of to Savu Savu, great sail and we lost a fish, line and sinker, to me it looked like a Marlin(it jumped out of the water) but mum said that its was only a Mahi Mahi. We also caught a MASSIVE Wahoo, it was 13/45cm long. Bigger that Fletcher and the same size a Baden, it was 3ocm shorter than me(last time I measured). We also had a beautiful sunset yesterday, the clouds were just at the top of a mountain and the sun was directly behind the mountain. Well I'd better go, the computer is almost flat and it's really early.

Crown jellyfish

Well today I got a good lot of SOCE and Music done... Otherwise not mush else happened, Still a was a strong wind waning to day but was cancled tonight. We might leave tomorrow, but who knows!!! If we are still here tomorrow dad wants to go kitesurfing with the red and white kited man that we have seen on the water the past few days. Well in the arvo I went fishing, while listening to my mp4 player and doing Music, up one the nets. Who said you can't do 3 things at once!!!! I looked up the jellyfish that we have been seeing, by the millions, they are called the Crown jellyfish and are rare. Baden caught one today and put it a bucket so we could see them up close, they are deffinatly the Crown jelly's. I couldn't find much info on them though....They are a open sea jelly and are not found inshore... Mum reacons that they came in for breeding, what animal breeds in winter!!!!! If I find a animal that I don't know about I love learning all that I can about it. We have a Grants Fishing Book and when ever I want I just pick out a random page a read about the fish. When ever we catch a fish I do the same thing to. Did you know that Doliphin fish eat flying fish???

Douce France

We spent the day at Ellington Wharf, there was a strong wind warning so we decided to stay put. After a bit of school Dad, Baden, Fletcher and I went exploring in the dingy. We eventually found a pathway up a 'hill'(It was 500metres to short for a mountain...). We found a few lookout spots and saw the other side of the island, the water 'looked' clam but you could see all the white caps... Around 2ish a MASSIVE catamaran came into the bay, we got out the binoculars and it was called 'Douce France'. The boat was a Ketch, and it was 139ft... 139ft!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(we're 45ft and a aright size cat!!!) Our boat could fit in sideways down the middle and still have 5ft left!!!!!!!!! We looked up Douce France on the Internet and found out that it is the largest cruising catamaran, no wonder! Dad, Baden, Fletcher and I went over in the dingy to have a look at her, mum said that if we get invited aboard shes going to swim over. After taking a few pic's of her and then comparing them to our boat we looked like an ant!!