Leaving St Helena
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sun 16 Feb 2020 18:40
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Leaving St
Helena
 We started the day, as every good
Sunday should with our final eggs from South Africa.
Perfect. Then Bear settled to fitting the alternator and its belt. All well,
what a relief. Then as I tidied and got ‘things’ out for our 3,900 nautical mile
journey to Jolly Harbour, Antigua, Bear changed the oil. This will be our
longest passage but we expect more of the same as on the journey to St Helena.
We hope to arrive in 32 to 33 days depending on how kind The Doldrums are and
our last tipple with King Neptune as we cross the Equator for the last
time. I think you are being a bit optimistic on the
days...... I have to be.....
 Taking our rubbish with us we had our
best look at the top of the mast of the wreck of the
SS Papanui. Paul our water taxi chap
of this afternoon took our old oil as he has a friend that can use
it.
  We ate at Anne’s Place, sent a few
emails, both enjoyed lamb shank and then Bear filled a water jug as we waited for Paul. I did a tiny bit
of wave watching as the sea hit the cave to our
right.
 At six Paul and
his trusty little steed arrived.
  It had rained most of the day and as
we neared Beez the beginnings of a
rainbow.
 Bear suggested that as it was a dull
and rainy evening we could leave on the morrow. I knew we would roll all night
so I preferred to get going. By the time we left our buoy at 18:40 the rainbow was just being joined by a second one to the
left. We took this as a harbinger of ‘Good Luck” and off we went.
ALL IN ALL GREAT TO BE ON THE
MOVE
OUR LAST AND LONGEST
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