The evening of my birthday saw a fork go overboard. Our usual trick is to tie a line to a bag of weights and on the other end of the line tie a buoy. This is all dropped overboard as soon after loosing the utensil as possible so a morning recovery is possible. Once it was light enough I donned my gear and went on the prowl. The first problem was that the buoy/line had evidently been caught up on the boat overnight and dragged around the sandy sea floor. It was fairly easy to trace the path the bag had been dragged so I move the whole affair back to it’s starting point so I had a good reference. I eventually found the fork half buried in the sand and brought all back aboard the boat.
Shortly before 11 we decided to move the boat a short way, just for a change of scene. As we headed out of our little alcove we saw two more boats approaching the general area from the north. They were both kiwi boats and we remembered seeing them in Savusavu and one in Opua just before we left. We decided to invite them over for the evening so once we’d anchored and settled, as had they, I zipped over in the dinghy to invite them all over along with Sagittarius.
After a left over curry lunch we had a lazy afternoon reading broken only by my swim down to the anchor to make sure it was all ok. In this case I decided to move the anchor a little to put it behind a lump of coral as the sea bed where we are is somewhat rocky.
In the evening the Sagittarius’s, Ivory Keys and Just in Time’s all came over for drinks and nibbles and left rather late. It was nice to have company and, as ever, it was a good evening.
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