IF YOU ARE THINKING OF VISITING  WALLABY CREEK

 PLEASE email SOME personal INFORMATION .


  If I had a crew selection process ( which I don't )
  the questions I would ask and the skills I 
  would look for ??

1. Do you think you could catch and clean a fish,
   grind a coconut and bake a loaf of bread
   in the one morning and then cook it all on
   a kerosene stove while standing on the wall,
   holding on with both hands and including 
   occasional bouts of seasickness ?

2. Do you think you could enjoy a tropical sunset
   over a sandy island with a rum and coconut juice
   in hand ?  No T.V. for 500 miles!

3. Could I trust you to swim ashore
   and go into a native village to
   trade matches for pineapples ?

4. Do you like listening to Jimmy Buffett singing
   SON OF A SON OF A SAILOR ?

5. Can you live if the only bath is the warm salty
   waters of a tropical lagoon?
   And your hair stays salty all the time?
   And going ashore involves jumping out of the
   dinghy into the surf and arriving ashore wet.

6. Can you go to bed at dusk and get up at dawn and
   swim before breakfast ? 

7. Can you pull a rope with all your strength once
   or twice a day ?
   And not make a fuss about the blisters and broken
   nails?

8. Could you sleep on a rollercoaster ?

9. Will you cry when the skipper swears at you ?

10. Are you a nice person and do you like to meet
    other good people and share life with them ?
    Can you make your own fun when there is nothing
    much happening?

11. Can you live 1,000 miles away from a big city ?
    On rainy days can you be happy in a small room
    with 4 other sweaty bodies with just a book or
    a bottle of rum and a pack of cards?

12. Do you think you would enjoy a natural simple life
    where you may go weeks without seeing a car or
    hearing the news or using modern conveniences 
    Can you survive weeks away from a telephone?

13. Do you have any experience of natural life as in
    sailing, hiking, bushwalking, camping, horse riding
    surfing ? If not, do you think you will adapt ?

 If it all sounds too hard  then it probably is.

     FAIR WINDS  SMOOTH SEAS   AND HAPPY SAILING
          TO EVERYBODY.

                              ALAN