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Two days in Niue

Monday

On Monday morning we woke to see a pod of small dolphins in front of the boat. After pulling ourselves together we dinghied ashore to check in. Niue has the most unique dinghy dock we’ve encountered so far. One pulls up along side the dock and attaches a hook from a dockside crane to […]

A day of rest

That’s mostly how I’d describe the rest of Sunday. On and off naps recovering from the night before, a little reading and some internet struggling. In theory we were supposed to be able to get an internet connection by giving the yacht club a login and password. In practice it didn’t work for us nor […]

A pounding passage

Given the information we had available to us and what transpired for us and other vessels in the vicinity, our decision to leave at 9:30am yesterday seems to have been the right one. However, being the best option available didn’t make it a lot of fun. The forecast was for 20-25 knots of wind. What […]

A day in the middle of nowhere

Low tide was around 9:40am local time so we chose then for all three of us to go out and snorkel the reef. The thinking being that at low tide we would have minimal current coming over the reef which turned out to be correct. We first headed over to the nearest section of reef […]

Beveridge Reef

We approached the reef from the north tacking our way in against the wind which was now beginning to clock round to the ESE. On the way in we were hailed by one of the two vessels in the reef, Ile de Grace. We learned that both they and Trim, who we’d met in Palmerston, […]