Re-fuelling day.
After a quite morning doing chores (Sonia cleaning boat, washing) whilst David went to a meeting in Townsville, it was time to re-fuel.
Magnetic Island Marina does not have a re-fuelling jetty. The only way to put some more diesel in your boat is to borrow the car from the marina. This is free of charge as long as you put some fuel in it. We soon discovered why. We nicknamed the car "The Beast", it was an old V8 Range Rover that had more than 200,000kms on the clock and a very leaky exhaust system. But it did the job.
The process was
a) take 20l jerry cans to the petrol station a kilometre down the road
b) fill up and pay a lot of money, you can see the price below
c) carry all the jerry cans down to the boats
d) fill up boat
e) repeat until all boats are done
Total 21 jerry cans.
Bill: 2 Jerrys
David T and David W: 6 Jerrys each
Jim 7 Jerrys
After spending the afternoon on this someone commented it would have been just as cost effective to motor across to Townsville and fill up (and cheaper), but not where near as much "fun"
