Opua: $6.14 a gallon
Opua: $6.14 a gallon
A second quiet calm day. Above is this morning’s dawn.
I did a few minor chores on the boat, including putting the servo-rudder back on the Monitor. It hasn’t been used since October 2009 and needs to be.
I thought about going ashore for a walk, but was too content out here.
I did row in and fill a jerry can with diesel. That ought to do it for the year.
THE HAWKE OF TUONELA herself has not been to a fuel dock since 2003.
I’m not certain what I paid per gallon for the diesel; but last week Carol mentioned in an email that she had just had the most expensive filling of her car’s gas tank ever.
That same day I read in the CHICAGO TRIBUNE online that gas has gone up 11% so far this year in Chicago; and I heard on New Zealand radio that prices have just increased here, too.
I did the math, converting liters to US gallons, and New Zealand dollars to US dollars. The price of gasoline in New Zealand is currently $6.14 US per US gallon. I don’t know if that is regular or premium. Whichever, it is premium enough. I expect the price of petrol is similar in the UK.
The future is obvious.
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Frightened by the tsunami warming--and I noticed that the harbor is not nearly as muddy today as yesterday, so perhaps that energy did stir up the bottom as I hypothesized--a man described “as an experienced sailor, who has sailed everywhere” in today’s NEW ZEALAND HERALD, left a safe harbor in the middle of the night to take his boat to sea. He ran into a rocky islet in the darkness and had to be winched up into a helicopter. His boat is described as a total loss.
Another man went out at night in a kayak to bring in a fishing net he feared would be damaged. He is missing and presumed drowned.
Sunday, March 13, 2011