Our first view of Fukuoka....wow...it's a big city....>2.5 million people!!
The 2 fuel trucks
Jaap and one of the truck drivers!!
Friendly fuel man working the nozzle!!
That's Kirk's finger showing us where to go on the charts....note it is all in Japanese!!
Our Japanese/Chinese lunch...that is a pork loin!!
This is the Thermopure unit our toilet discharge hose ran under making it extremely difficult to change!!
The toilet discharge hose next to the toilet
The toilet discharge hose going to the "Y" valve under the sink.....note the curve and how stiff the hose has become in 14 years!
Some of the calcium carbonate we got out of the hose......there was probably close to a gallon of the stuff!!
Bad boy battery...it had somehow been overcharged and got too hot and started to deform!!!
These are 120 pounds.....yikes, my poor back!!!
Pretty church......well, not exactly, it is for wedding ceremonies......Really!!!!
The line at Costco right as it opened!
The checkout line
Mystic tied alongside the Maranoa marina dock
They have a massive series of lifts to take small boats in/out of the water
Some of the concrete taken out of the anti-siphon "U" joint
The hose going to the thru-hull is full of calcium carbonate pieces we loosened from the acid wash two weeks ago
John and the mechanic, Kemichi Nonaka
Kathy and Etsuko, the woman at the marina who could speak English!
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We celebrated getting all the work done with a steak lunch
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I was hoping for some local Japanese beef but got a delicious USA Aged Angus sirloin strip.....delicious!!
A better view of Fukuoka from the marina
Lots of power boats in the marina.....Mystic is at the other end by the blue lifts!!
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