SASS' DIARY : DAY FIVE

Day Five- Melbourne
Monday 6th July

Tash and Scotty took Percy off to find an alternator and be fixed while the rest of our crew met at Soulfood again to start writing faxes to Students and Sustainability and our absent crew members in Sydney and Tassie – to let them know our story. We went over to Friends of the Earth to link up with their Jabiluka Action Group (some of whom were hostile towards us because they had problems with Yellowcake donating money to Oms not Bombs rather than them – though they did get some of the money) and were tarring us with the same brush, saying “we’re getting ripped off” because we were utilising their resources. And did our faxing, phoning and photocopying until about 2pm, liasing with Scotty and Tash on the mobile we were told that Percy would probably be ready to go on the ferry. So the peace Bus crew at FOE packed up and trammed off to Port Melbounre to book into our (delayed) ferry crossing.
waiting round as 6pm drew nigh, we started calling the mobile to check where Tash, Scotty and percy were.. the mobile was diverting to the message bank, much to our increasing frustration… we were huddled together, stressing out – Where were they? Where was the bus and our stuff? We repeatedly requested that the ferry leave the cargo bay doors open because the bus is coming.. Not able to get through to Tash and Scotty and having received no message from them we were sure that they were. We were herded onto the ferry, much to our distress, and the whole thing headed out to sea.