" A LADY " Sailing around the World
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Sun 13 Jun 2010 20:03
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SUNDAY 13th JUNE
2010 ( Presently in " Kenutu "
) Emily Hyde's birthday
08.00hrs We tidied up the boat and gathered
up all the washing and got ready to leave after a libhe breakfast.
As skipper had drawn sketches of our route
into this Island and cross referring it with the chart reader, It really
made
life very easy on our journey out of
here.
We had already decided to spend the night in "
Hunga " so we headed in that direction.
However , on route , we stopped at a small sandy
Island wiyh lots of trees and surrounded with coral.
The Island was called "Fonuafo'ou "and had a total
height of 24 feet
The Island was full of bird life, in fact, there
were more birds here than any other place since we left the
galapagos.
There were Red Footed Boobies, Swallow tailed
Terns, Brown Noddies, Black Noddies, Black- naped Terns, and lessor Frigate
birds,
all nesting,,
Scotty ( john Chesbruogh ) went into orbit
again, He must have taken 200 or more photo's of the birds for his
collection.
Later, we went snorkling, again this was
spectacular, like underwater cathedrals, and caves, fantastic fish and so
on,
We spent 2 hours on this little oasis, relaxing and
absorbing the whole scene,
It definatly ranks one of the best little spots we
have visited since we started this journey.. 10 out of
10
We rejoined the boat, where Fats had prepared a
light lunch,
Fats did not go ashore, still recovering from his
ordeal, he likes to take things easy, and we think that he is right
.
17.00hrs, We arrieved at " Hunga " , an
Island on the western side of these wonderfull Islands, the entrance was
in througt a very narrow
opening in an otherwise sheer rock face, "
SPECTACULAR " , once inside, we had to negotiate our way through a shallow
patch
of coral before finding deep water again,
Ohhhhhhh what a lagoon, gosh! we
definatly are in second Heaven, if not in first heaven,,,
We picked up a mooring belonging to the resort, and
of course we all , including " Fats " went ashore to the Resort for our
pre dinner scoops, This was a quaint little
place, and again the owner, " Steve Cambell" hailed from N Z and his ancestors
came from
" Maguires Bridge " outside Belfast, and his granfather came from Donegal.
We also met a bunch of sailors from Australia, who
have done the Shannon River in Ireland on an " Emerald Star " motor
cruiser,
we had a luugh with them.. gas people.
Dinner , was by Scotty, pork chops in lovely
gravy, orange and pinapple, how about that. and creamed spuds,
later, after some good laughs and swopping stories,
we hit the scratchers,
A bloody great day,, ( for the WA Jolly
good show )
Signed :- Stephen
Hyde ( skipper )
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