POSITION 18:43.26N 64:22.95W ANEGADA
Aurelia
Shirley and Michael Webb-Speight
Fri 9 Feb 2007 03:55
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!