Bundaberg update

It's now over 2 weeks since we arrived here. It's Sunday morning and we are soon going on the free marina shuttle to the local farmers market. Lots of lovely mangoes, cherries ($10/kg!!) and stone fruit - the latter from the Stanthorpe region at altitude on the NSW border.
The weather has been very windy (up to 27 knots in the marina yesterday) but a bit cooler which is good. Doubled up all the mooring lines just in case. We braved the wind and walked the 2 kms or so into Burnett Heads and had another delicious reasonably priced lunch at the Lighthouse Hotel. Then the supermarket shuttle gave us a lift back to the marina. Great service.
We are hopeful that this coming week will see the watermaker and HW cylinder issues sorted as we have identified the appropriate course of action in both cases. Incidentally during that process we made contact with the former agents in Australia for Open Ocean of Opua and they had the same integrity issues with them that we have had. They are no longer their agents and are manufacturing their own brand of watermaker. The sooner we forget about Open Ocean and their shoddy dealings the better.
Hopefully we'll get some deck caulking done this week as well and then Christmas with Jean's friend Sara in Murwullimbah. More updates soon.
Cheers from us.....................

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