bring on the dancing girls

Today we put the race stickers on.

What a busy week. As well as getting our own boat ready for our adventure we farewelled our friend Roz Savage- http://www.rozsavage.com/ - who is rowing to a top secret location on the other side of the Indian Ocean. Yes, rowing! Top secret because she is worried about  pirates. We carried the channel ten and seven film crews and a few others as Roz rowed, well, it would be nice to say off into the sunset but it was early morning and we wanted to get back for coffee.
Lucky she left, really, because she is a campaigner for cleaner oceans and less rubbish and she hates plastic shopping bags. Our boat is now basically full of plastic shopping bags full of plastic wrapped containers of manufactured food. Not a fresh vegi in sight. Scurvy? What's that?
Next week we are looking forward to the official departure dinner complete with Indonesian Dancing girls, hence the title. Departure Sat 23rd at noon.