What a Difference
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Wed 10 Jul 2013 11:00
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As the Song says – What a
difference a day makes, twenty four little hours
All calm and quiet in Rikitea Anchorage.
The difference between this picture
and the one on yesterdays blog is more than extreme. Twenty four hours has seen
the wind drop to zero - instead of trying to sleep with the howling noise all
night, we had deathly silence until the cockerels gave it welly from four
o’clock. The sea beyond the reef has clearly had Mrs Woo in action on her
ironing board all night.
The supply
ship has made it in today and the shops will be full to brimming
tomorrow.
Beyond the little
jetty opposite Beez is the bakery, we could actually smell his bread
baking this morning for the first time in three weeks.
The
cathedral visible too.
Bear is just getting the final
weather report before we up and off, seven hundred and seven miles to Ravavae
Island. There is the old saying “Sail south until the butter melts”. The new one
for us is “Sail north until it feels hot once more”. The original plan was to go
to Rapa but that is another three hundred miles south, so sadly, with the
weather as it is, we have to give it a miss – maybe next
time..........
ALL IN ALL DEFINITELY OFF
THIS TIME |