To Karang Kaledupa Atoll
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sun 14 Aug 2016 22:47
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To Karang Kaledupa
Atoll
 Up and off at eight forty we followed
our track in for the six point seven mile journey across to the next atoll,
WT in the lead.
 Wirraway close behind. The average depth crossing
Lintea Atoll was fourteen metres below.
 The lone
house on the left this time.
 The first house on
the right not looking so good from this mornings angle.
 Waved off by the
main house inhabitants.
 In the pass there was a local boat anchored.
 The owner soon
popped up, leg aloft and bailed out furiously.
 Soon in paddling
position, he gave us a big grin, hearty wave and went on his
way.
 Wirraway
in the pass.
 A local boat taking on water as she pounds through the waves. More bailing
required.
  Our route on the chartplotter shows
little detail at low scale. At a bigger scale our waypoints ready to be moved for tomorrow as soon as we
anchor.
 Looking back we could just make out
the houses on Lintea Atoll.
 Once again our anchorage
looks to be in mid ocean.
  Anchored on the
chartplotter, looks as if we have crossed dry land and on Bear’s IPad, neither as impressive as the next picture on
Google Earth.
 Anchored to the right of
the yellow arrow.
 To our right Wishful Thinking and Wirraway, later
Rock and Roll Star completed the team. Simon on Nicha had
decided to press on south toward Flores Island. After some excellent snorkelling
we had lunch and cleaned the girls bottom. I made croquette potatoes, chopped
watermelon and arrived at WT at half past five for drinks with Gill,
Matthew and baby Willow before the little one needed her bed. Gary, Bev, Gin,
Michael and ourselves once again settled to delicious coral trout and later Gin
introduced the dice to our game of Taboo. The boys kept rolling double time but
it was fun to see such hand descriptive people as Michael and Bev roll ‘statue’
where their adjudicator even has to turn the card. Hand sitting was the only way
forward. The boys narrowly squeaked a win, but one all, we can soon make up that
ground for a lead....... Home after a wonderful evening and in bed by nine
thirty for our hundred and fifty mile, thirty odd hour journey to Kroko Atoll –
almost directly south on the morrow.
ALL IN ALL ANOTHER INCREDIBLE
JOURNEYS END
A SHORT HOP TO A LOVELY CORAL
ATOLL |