Sunken Ship Troubles

I know there are ‘better’ things to watch on TV than renovation shows. Like, I get it…I could watch a documentary on how tissues are made, or one of those shows where you watch the life-cycle of a frog from birth to when it gets eaten by a pelican, but I’m not totally convinced that’s as enriching as everyone seems to think.

I like my shows. Echolocation is such a fresh twist on an old idea that I’m transfixed, every single Monday, Wednesday and Friday. You’d know what I meant if you watched as well. Jerry and Cassandra needed a replacement stainless steel snapper rack for their fishing boat this week, since their old one snapped off in the middle of a storm (hah, snapped), except they live the furthest out from anyone, and they couldn’t very well row to Melbourne in the middle of a storm. So they had to hunker down in their home, only going out every few hours via the underwater back door so they could scrape some more algae off rocks, and pry off the occasional limpet to add texture to their algae soup.

Meanwhile, Alandra and Ray had bigger fish to fry (hah, fish) than a simple broken snapper rack. They NEEDED to get back to Melbourne to get some urgent marine fabrication, because they just had to go with a home shaped like a sunken ship, for character. That worked great until the pressure became too much for the bow, which snapped off in the middle of the night and filled their bedroom with water. So now they’re wet and tired, regretting making such a silly decision, and waiting to hear when they can get some specialists from Melbourne to do some marine stainless steel fabrication work to get their home back into ship-shape (hah, ship) so they can dry out their bedroom and second lounge.

Man, these marine biologists sure do make things hard for themselves.

-Raina