To Pulau Besar
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Fri 19 Aug 2016 22:47
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To Pulau
Besar
 At a quarter to six this morning, this
was the moon telling me that sunsets aren’t all they
are cracked up to be. What a sight, completely new to me.
 Todays
journey of thirty six miles.
 Wirraway just
setting off.
 Argonaut
getting ready to leave.
  Afar VI
behind us. A couple of local girls asleep on the
beach. We had hoped to see monkeys playing, we did hear
them.
 As we pulled out the ladies were already doing the washing in the freshwater
stream.
 Terrible for racers but idyllic to us.
 At the
corner we go out to sea, no sooner than the anchor was up we were in more
than a hundred and fifty metres.
 Pulau Babi
in the distance.
 We headed for the
last bump on the right, plenty of time for a game of backgammon and see
if I can claw back at Bear’s huge lead of twelve at Tri-ominoes. Not if I can help it. Huh.
 Quite a gaggle of
rally boats on the AIS.
 Just the next
right to go.
 We could easily have continued on
today to the next rally destination of Maumere but when we saw the name on the promontory............
 ..............just had to slip through
the gap in the reef next to Manungpepe. Mr Google
Earth to guide us.
 Once through the gap in the reef we
slowly rose from thirty metres below to find a spot in the shallow water next to
the village (far left).
 The village on
our left. We found two point four below. We didn’t fix the first try,
Bear brought the anchor up complete with a black carrier bag full of clothes.
Did you hang on to them. NO, it was all knickers and
things. Oh. Second try, no problem.
 Ahead, a local man
lay a floating fishing line.
 To our right Wishful Thinking and a lovely breeze coming off the
hills.
ALL IN ALL A LOVELY
DAY
BEAUTIFUL SUNNY DAY ON A TABLE TOP
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