Spent the morning swimming and relaxing before heading out mid afternoon
towards Anegada. This was 15 NM and we had a good sail out to Anegada
with Doc and Georgie taking turns on the helm. Fun and games coming through
the reefs at Anegada when the electronic chart disagreed with the "real
world" and our pilot guide. We decided to trust the channel markers and
proceeded with caution, S on the bow, Doc doing depth and M helming. Doc
unnerved everyone
with calling the depth, we had a particularly exciting time when he started
calling the speed, so Mike slowed down, and so did the numbers, which slowed
the speed down, until Mike realised what was happening when we go to 1.6m!
Eventually we elected to follow the light coloured sand through the brown
reef coloured water (being the lesser of two evils) which put us on the
wrong side of the last green marker - however the water was marginally
deeper there and we didnt touch the bottom
With the anchor safely down we felt a sundowner was highly overdue!
Anegada is an extremely flat island, more like a large reef with some sand,
palm trees and people living here. We went ashore for dinner to Anegada
Lobster Trap and had a most spectacular and beautiful meal of Lobster,
salad, and dessert courtesy of Georgie and Doc. Certainly one of the nicest
meals we have had on our trip. The boys of course didn't fancy lobster and
the restaurant was happy to BBQ some hotdogs that we brought with us from
the boat!
All tired tonight, it really is hard work being on holiday!
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