Bright and early we rose to greet the dawn and made our way to the Beach Cafe for breakfast with the 'Three Amigos' and the crew from Grey Douglas.

We decided to find the chandlery so that we could replace the errant boat hook, but after a long walk we found the chandlery to be lacking such an implement, or any of the other things on our shopping list. Ah well, there's always Geraldton and Rob Hills reliably informs me that there is a great chandlery there.

I had been having trouble with an overheating genset so my day's task was to fix this particular problem, and fast. We rely on the genset for recharging the batteries and for powering the watermaker so it is an essential piece of kit! After taking it to pieces I discovered that the heat exchanger was partially blocked, but a judicious poke with a bent coathanger dislodged what appeared to be a broken off piece of zinc anode. Stared her up and no more overheating. You bloody ripper!

A few other jobs kept us busy today until the BBQ on the beach gave us all a chance to unwind.

The next couple of days were pretty slack, just relaxing, pottering and preparing for the sundowners!