Food on the Island

Well to partially confirm the story on the ABC, the island has not yet run out of food, however its starting to get "Dire", most of the restaurants are starting to close due to lack of ingredients, and they have run out of wholemeal flour for the bread.

The fabled ship with all the food and other stuff is currently sitting in the lea of the island, awaiting a part for its engine. It seems it can run the engines for a short period of time, but then it has to turn it off. A spare part is being flown from Germany and will arrive on island on Tuesday and will be fitted by Thursday. Until the part is fitted the ship is not allowed to dock.
Looks like it will not be until the weekend at the earliest, after we have left.

Meanwhile we have the calmest seas we have had for a month and perfect summer weather, just right for unloading ships, probably blow up a storm by the weekend.

To make up for the lack of a ship, a 737 cargo plan arrived on Saturday, and unloaded tons and tons of food. Most of it was for the detention center (3000 people is a lot of food each week), but the local shops were there picking up fresh fruit, veggies and eggs. Apart from the basic foods that come in on the plane, the shelves are getting very empty in the shops, especially the supermarket.

The locals are now saying an air-force refueling plan may arrive next week if the ship has not docked, as the SEIV221 incident used up a lot of jet fuel undertaking emergency flights, refueling military flights, etc.

Luckily we leave in 4 days, and we should be able to hold out with our supplies at home, although the red wine is starting to run a bit low :-(