To Portlands Roads
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sat 9 Jul 2016 22:57
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To Portland
Roads
 Today
journey began at eleven o’clock and would take us up through the shipping
lane, wiggling through the islands and reefs, overnight to Portland Roads on the
mainland. Four of our seven journeys to check out on Thursday Island on the
14th.
  Trinity
resting until she works all night. The wind was in the twenties and
within minutes the engine was off and the genoa was sufficient to have Beez soon
leaving Stanley Island behind.
   It looks as if we are in the middle
of the ocean, in fact we are in no more than twenty metres of water. Still, it
is a bit of a surprise to suddenly see a beach and a few
trees. The working girls love to trawl the shallows around the
reefs.
 A working girl near
another ‘beach’.
 The skipper awake
for a change, cool with one of his vanilla biscuits.
 Sunset was
dark and fast.
    My 18:00 to 22:00 began with gusts to
twenty eight knots, quite big seas and nine working girls in a line. I had one merchant ship. My 02:00 to 06:00 was dogged
with working girls and their big lights, zig-zagging
nearby, crossing in front and taking a long time to go by. Listening to the
Birth of Modern Civilisation as Socrates and Plato were going at it - I turned
off Prof Noble and settled to my tin of tuna. As I love it drenched in vinegar
it was rather funny when a cold dollop fell on my chest. Glasses on there was
another dollop on my right lens that had been dangling at the time...... Note to
self – put tuna in a bowl big enough to deal with big waves.
 At a quarter
past nine I sailed by Resolution
Island.
 I got up just as we pulled around
the final bend. All I had to do was find three metres
for Bear to drop the anchor – and choose our
view.
 ALL IN ALL A BUSY TIME THAT
SPED BY
A GOOD STEP FORWARD, HEADING
NORTH
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