Sunday

After the last of the paying passengers rolled in on Sunday morning and a few final last minute dramas unfolded (like where can you get miniDV tapes in Port Douglas at 7am on a Sunday morning) we waved good bye to Tash and Fabs, who were still fuming at not being able to come along and left them behind to take care of the real world as we set sail aboard the 22 meter research vessel the Undersea Explored which was to be our floating home for the next week.

Undersea wasn’t built for speed and it’s design as reef research boat with a very shallow draft means that she rolls a bit even in the lightest of swell, which caused a few concerned looks from some of the guests, but bitching about swell and wind on a kite surfing holiday wouldn’t go down to well. So after a few quite beers on the deck watching the sun set over the Daintree and the anticipation that when we woke tomorrow morning we’d be in kiter paradise the gentle rocking was soon forgotten.