Thursday 15 May
Hours Top 7903 Bottom 3271
Finally left Mooloolaba in Holly at 0900 hrs, so much for the 0500 hrs start. My long suffering wife Pip and darling ex-wife Marilyn and friend Pam waved me off at the pontoon.
Nick and Fran Wills came out onto the breakwater to say goodbye, my great mate Norm Cooper, who was there with his camera, joined them. Unfortunately, as I came up to Norm a boat came past so I had to do a quick 360 to make sure Norm got a good shot of me. If there is one thing worse than two professional photographers are two has-been photographers taking photos of each other.I had to do a sail past the Vietnam Veterans Thursday Breakfast Club. Being a bit late, I had missed the main crowd .A phone call to Kevin Lynch enticed him and Ian Atkinson and others away from their skinny coffees at the Coffee Club ,but in my enthusiasm I ran a bit close to the beach between the flags and was suitably rebuked by the lifeguard on his loud speaker. What a send off, the most important men in the Mooloolaba Surf Club waving madly goodbye to me at the Loo with a View and the Lifeguard roundly abusing me for all to hear. It doesn’t get much better.