First thing on Thursday morning, AK was heading across LUSC carpark when a young male jumped out of a car and called out (officious deep tone) "I want to have a word with you". AK spun around as he came running over "I'm from Newcastle Customs" said he "We saw your flag and need to investigate". He waved his ID under her nose. "Our flag?" said AK stunned. We were joined by another male from the car. "Yes what country are you from?" asked officious one. AK said incredulously "It's a rainbow flag, what country flies a rainbow flag?" Second male(presumably from customs also, but no ID produced) smirked saying "It looks like red, white and blue from a distance". "Oh but from here" said AK politely (ever mindful of the alleged recent trashing of possessions during a search of a yacht by Bundaberg Customs) "it clearly is a rainbow flag!" Ignoring the fact that there was no reason to "investigate" further, officious one decided a few questions were in order! "Where were we going, where was our last port" etc etc. AK answered "nicely" while chiding herself for not being up to date with customs legislation.
Anyway we finished packing Manatee, visited Gwen and Joan and got an early night for our 6am departure.
Gwen and Joan came to wave of us LUSC wharf and then raced to the bar for a final farewell. We departed Camden Haven bar around 0645, rainbow flag waving a fond farewell to the town of Laurieton.
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Hi girls, I hope you have recovered from the trip to Coffs. In fact the Incas of Peru use a rainbow flag. It has seven stripes, the seventh being pale blue between the green and the blue. I am not usually the source of this kind of obscure information but Laine from the ASCC recently returned from Peru with loads of rainbow stuff including flags. So the Newcastle customs could have thought you'd just sailed across the Pacific! Anni, ASCC
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