Tuesday 18th., morning outside the northern point of Irian Jaya, Indonesia.
We're just below equator now. As anyone who knows anything about world-wide weather can tell you this area is notorious for being still and windless. We have -in our infinite wisdom- decided to take our sailboat up here. Furthermore we have not brought extra diesel. Last night the engine coughed and died and we had to fill the last of our fuel on the tank, so now we're down to the last 35 hours worth of engine time. We are hoping to find a town soon so we can get some more fuel. However our papers are patchy at best. We are offically thrown out of the country. We are however allowed to travel in Indonesian waters, but we are not allowed to anchor anywhere, so we haven't done that. We have certainly not anchored two or three places before we reached this point. We have most definitely not stayed for a couple of days at a beautiful beach on Yapen Island. Picking our own coconuts and lime and mixing it with gin for our sundown card-game on the beach.
Joachim joined us in Jayapura, and we haven't grown sick of him and used him for shark-bait yet. In fact it's really sweet to be able to split the night-watches in three instead of two. Also we get some new stories thrown in to our gossip-pool and we get to recycle the stories that the two of us has swapped so many times we're not sure who of us told it in the first place. Jokke has also definitely NOT used his military jungle skills to take us on a little jungle expedition since we haven't anchored anywhere.
Our plan now is to make it to the town of Ambon and try to clear in there. Rumour has it that they're supposed to be more cooperative there. We're crossing fingers.
Peace out.
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