Almost everyone I know has trouble sleeping the first night at sea. That’s what makes one/two night passages such a chore as the day you arrive you’re wasted. The second night one does sleep but you’ve not caught up so it’s only three to four night passages or beyond that you get your rhythm. The alternative is to leave around 2-3am after a half decent sleep. We had thought of doing that to get down here but I’m glad we didn’t. First of all we’d never have got the anchor up out of the coral in the dark. Second, hindsight shows us, that we actually did quite well sailing down in all that nasty weather. Apart from getting a good wash and rinse we had the wind. Once the storm had passed there was almost no wind yesterday although it was gloriously flat and sunny. Had we left yesterday we’d have had to motor all the way. Glad we didn’t.
So yesterday, if you hadn’t guessed, was catch up day. We all had a few naps and did very little. We did all go out snorkeling on the reef just before lunch – it was excellent. Sand at 30ft with a wall of coral full of nooks and crannies to peer into. Must get the hookah out on this one as there just has to be lobsters in there somewhere.
We’re hanging around here another day and night. The weather isn’t as fine at the moment but we plan to go ashore this morning and get the hookah out this afternoon. We’ve invited the Sea Mists to join us on these events so we’ll have good company.
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