First few days in Freo


I am afraid you are going to be greeted with a few wordy blogs and not so pictorial from now on, they will also be few and far between as the daily routine of the event begins and I am generally just working

So I left Phuket about 4 days ago with Lindsey and finally got to the hotel room at about 3am, after much excited chatting with Emilie I managed to fall asleep at about 4am and got up at 0830am to go to the boat park and unload a container with the troops – which mainly consisted of moving and stacking a hell of a lot of water bottles. They were moved from one container to another and then promptly collapsed down and had to be restacked- joy of joy!
But finally done and a stroll round the area with Emilie to show her vaguely where things are and more importantly to get an ice cream and everything was back in the balance!

I am managing to sneak a bit of outside time in and I am hoping to get out on the water once the event starts, but otherwise I will keeping an eye on the temperatures dropping back home for my return.

Yesterday we had a day off as the Opening Ceremony was happening and only the sailors were invited. This gave u the opportunity to pootle up the swan river to a little beach and have a BBQ. Which was lovely. A little swim as well with a dolphin almost within in reaching distance and our batteries were recharged.

I then spent the evening with my cousin Louise who is randomly out here on holiday and through the power of Facebook we caught up fr a few beers- an absolute pleasure.

The match racing starts today with the next bunch of sailing classes starting on Monday


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