Day 18....316 miles to go.
Bamboozle
Jamie and Lucy Telfer
Tue 9 May 2006 21:23
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9 degrees 53' South 133 degrees 21'
West
To say we are nearly there would be tempting fate
but we are certainly now a great deal closer than when we started. Our
progress for the last few days has been slower and less comfortable with the
wind a little less reliable both in direction and strength but we are now
almost close enough to smell the coconuts. The trick now is to try to engineer a
daylight arrival rather than arrive in the dark and have to sit around all
night waiting for dawn to find our way in. There is also a single rock about 14
miles this side of the island which we want to give a good wide berth to.....it
would be a shame to run straight in to the first solid object we have come
across in 3000 miles!
In case you are wondering why I have not been
sending lots of photos of the fish I have been catching it is because (at least
for the present) my piscatorial talents seem to have eluded me. Not a thing, for
more than a week....the hooks have been in the water so long they are beginning
to go rusty.
Finally just in case you think it is all
gin & tonics and sunbathing here are Lucy's exact comments from
the log last night.
01:00 Horrible, have gybed back on to port
tack.
02:00 Wet, very
wet
03:00 Still black clouds coming from east,
wet.
04:00 Heavy rain-cloud overhead. Raining
hard.
05:00 HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE
You will be glad to hear things looked a little
brighter over of a mug of tea once the sun had come up.
Anyway, Fatu Hiva is not too far ahead over the horizon and then, with a
bit of luck, it is back to gin & tonics and sunbathing!
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