Townsville 9th May 2009

I've been back aboard illywhacker for 2 days now - and confronted with
an impossible stowage task. Moving out of the house somehow resulted in
a ridiculous amount of gear that came with me in the car - I just
couldn't decide what else to do with it! The outside of the boat is in
desperate need of a clean due to 6 months of savage onslaught by
cormorants, but I'm still confined below, scuttling about moving boxes
from one place to another. At least it doesn't give me any spare time to
feel too miserable and I'm sure Lyndall would approve. She loved putting
things in their designated places, cleaning, labelling and testing them
all in readiness for our next passage. It will be Mother's Day tomorrow,
another sad hurdle for me.