Anchored at Orford today for the second day and decided to top off our tanks and refill our jerry cans.

We took the dingy to shore, tied up at a private jetty in the Prosser river (no public one in sight) and wandered up to the road with our jerry cans. A local (Don) whistled at us from his driveway. We thought we were in trouble for tying the dingy to a private jetty, but he explained there was no fuel available in Orford and gave us the keys to his car so we could drive to Triabunna to fill up.

We filled up, drove back to Orford and had a bit of a chat with the lovely couple who lent us their car. Ex boaties who understand the complexities of getting stuff when living on a boat. Now in their 80’s and still taking their monster bus light RV to the mainland to travel around, it is so inspiring to meet wonderful people like this.

We took the fuel back to LaGecko, then headed back into town for lunch and pickup a few groceries.

We got back to the boat after lunch and the wind started howling getting up to 32kts so we packed up the dingy back up onto the davits, ready to depart tomorrow and settled into an afternoon of reading.