08 November 2018

Hi everyone!    We hope that everyone is very well and that you're slowly getting used to the cold weather.   You'll be glad to know that it's not all sun sea and sand here.  We've had stupid amounts of rain, wind and it's got rather chilly.  Im still walking around in shorts and tshirs ..oh and a rain jacket but everything is damp ;-(   It's a tough life LOL

We have some exciting news.  We've got a boat for ECO!!!  It's 23ft and 140 hp ..it'll will seat about 10 people but after we've made some adjustments, so it can hold scuba tanks, it should be comfortable for 4-6 people.  Two friends kindly donated the money for the boat who are passionate about ECO.  I think Simon and I are still in shock :-D   

The ECO boat

It arrived a couple of days ago and one of the first jobs Simon did was to is to install a bilge pump.  Thank goodness he did as we've had torrential rain ever since.  The bilge pump is manual, so with it being the new boat and not knowing how much waters has been taken on, poor Simon, acting our captain has been constantly getting wet, having swim out, board, turn the bilge pump on and empty the water.    The wind has also been horrendous, so that hasn't helped.

Captain Simon checking on the water levels as stupid o'clock 

Lots of rain means lots of run off  ..as you can see