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2 April 2012
April 2nd.
F** me ! 370AUD for a day out at sea, it better be worth it !
So we gear up, I have my own suit, mask and snorkel but I still need a pair of fins (I’ll buy one in Asia) so I inherit a shiny light blue pair of short ass fins… Nice.
2 April 2012
April 1st.
Just outside Carnarvon, the guy at the petrol station lets me use his shaded backyard for me to do my service. Right, so what did Jeff tell me ? Ah yeah : drain the oil (don’t worry I’m not dumping 10l of black oil on the ground, I have a container, which I got from a guy at Denham), change the filter, add 10L fresh oil, run the engine for 1min then add another 1L as the filter is now full. Okay, so I get burning hot oil on my hand, the shit pours down for what seems an eternity, and I should have bought a bloody funnel !
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2 April 2012
March 31st.
A very early rise, just before the sun actually, and off to Monkey Mia for the dolphins feed. I’m not a fan of feeding wild animals such as sharks, crocs or dolphins as it tends to force a habit into them that human equals food (either humans provide, or humans are the food, in the case of crocs or sharks) but anyways, a long convo last night with Lia tells me this one is quite different. Dolphins get only 1.5kg of food each, there’s very little interaction, you’re not allowed to touch but they do come to you, and it’s all part of research…
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