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After breakfast, while Tobi worked on the kitchen, I did the next step of our laundry work.

Thereafter we took off for doing our errands ashore.

I needed to refill a propane gas bottle, and Tobi wanted to shop for vegetables and fruits.

We found a nice anchorage up the river just about 100 m down the river of the bridge.

A guy invited us to dock just beside his boat. A prefect place close to “Paradies Petrol” where I read that they refill propane gas bottles immediately. I didn’t need to carry the empty gas bottle for long to read the refill station. How lucky I was!

Refilling was possible immediately but I needed to get cash. “Now I have to walk a bit” I thought myself. However, one of the guys said “Come on” and arranged that another one brought me by car to the center of Luganvile.
How lucky I was!

The bottle was refilled quickly, I paid and wanted to take the now heavy – about 23 kg – bottle when the same guy as before told me that the car will bring me back. So within 5 min I was at a place where I had to carry the full gas bottle for only about 50 m.
How lucky I was!

Arriving at the place where our tender was docked, I met Ian again. Ian is the one, who invited us to dock alongside his boat. We talked for a while. Among the topics we touched there was global warming. He sees the effect at full moon tide and showed me until where the water went up 10 years ago and now. He is still lucky because the ground floor of his simple house still stays dry. At the neighbor’s house, the ground floor gets already flooded. Global warming first hand experience. What do the rich countries do to reduce global warming? Nothing, or max a tiny little bit that the politicians can say we are doing something.

And the country with the very best president so ever, supports the use of fossil energy and stopped all solar and wind projects to make his country great again and let the people live in a new golden age.

After talking with Ian for quite a while, he helped me to get the gas bottle into MaRe’s tender. I started the engine, cut the lines, bid farewell to Ian, and took off for a spot Ian recommend.

This spot as just a few meters down the river on the other bank.

I just threw the bow anchor of the tender between two broken concrete slaps, let the tender drift in the current and was ready to wait for Tobi.

A few boys, with simple fishing rods, consisting of a stick and a fishing line attached to the end of stick. At the other side of the fishing line just a small hook. They looked into the water to see if there is a fish foulish enough to take the bait. One of them caught two small golden looking fishes. I wonder what they do with them.

Then Tobi came with the first shopping bags with vegetables and fruits. Additionally he carried three bundles of bananas tied together. He bought one and got two more as a present.
Sunday is also Tobi’s lucky day!

Tobi had to walk the short distance to the municipal market two times more to get all he bought. Finally all was on board and we could go back to MaRe.

With the arrival at MaRe part 2 of the shopping started. Cleaning all with sea and fresh water, and storing all. Not the easiest task.

I continued with the laundry we started the day before. In between two “rinsings” wer jumped into the water to clean MaRe’s underwater ship. The possibility to clean the hulls from any fouling, which grows even on copper coat, is a big advantage of copper coating.

Hanging the laundry on the “clothes line”, was the last task for the day.

We both felt tired.