Jason left yesterday. It felt weird at first. The three of us had been together 24/7 for almost 3.5 weeks and we had developed a little family. Michael and Jason had worked together to solve many problems. Bye bye, Jason! Safe travels! Have a rum and Coke for each of us.

So, it is just the two of us. Michael spent some time installing the new battery for the generator today. We are going to go with the two house batteries rather than three because we haven’t heard that our agent can find three batteries and we want to leave tomorrow.

Here are a few sites from the berth today. Two ships (I think both from Somalia – one for sure) docked behind us for a bit. One of them stayed for only a short time. There must have been some interesting smells emanating from it because the birds were highly interested. We know for a fact that the one nearer the dock is unloading goats and cattle today.

Seeing these animals coming off boats made me curious to know the main source of meat eaten in Oman. I asked one of the guys who has delivered diesel to us before and did again today. He told me that camels are the main source of meat. I didn’t even know that people ate camel meat. Of course, I Googled it. The countries with the highest levels of camel meat per capita consumption in 2018 (a bit old) were the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Oman (the last at 3,319 kg per 1000 persons).

We did a bit more provisioning today (many frozen ice cream treats!!) and had five more cans filled with diesel. Now we just need to wait for our agent to make arrangements to clear us out of here.

Many of our friends are not sailors so I thought you might be interested to know about the storage space for our clothes. This is where we keep our warm weather clothes – one drawer per person:

And this is the closet we use for warm weather clothes that we prefer not be wrinkled:

Those are in our cabin. We are using the forward starboard cabin to store our cooler weather clothes (again, one drawer per person) and our foulies (foul weather gear worn by sailors) and other outerwear:

If you visit us on our boat, please do not pack the contents of your walk-in closet. Hee hee.

Michael and I decided to be a bit lazy for dinner last night. We made a big ol’ salad and nothing else.

We hope to get underway before noon tomorrow. This will be our first passage with just two people. We’ll see how our night watch schedule works. . .