No wind 20:07.4S 169:45.33E
Salsa af Stavsnas
Ellinor Ristoff Staffan Ehde
Mon 20 Apr 2015 17:36
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Finally here (or there?). Just 2 miles north of the
North shore of Aneityum. On the leward side there is no wind and just a long
swell.
The boat has come to rest, we are making 0,9 knots
waiting for daylight. It is 4:30 in the morning local time in Vanuatu, we have
moved the clocks forward one hour to -11 UTC which means we are closer to home
now, every mile westward brings us closer and closer.
From the island we can only see a silouette, and of
course it makes you wonder, in the dark ashore, what does it look like and how
are the
people doing? We got the message that they have not
received promised relieves because of the hurricane Solo, the one that stoped us
from coming in the first attempt. Solo did strike here, and even if not as
strong as Pam it did not make things better.
I can see ChezNouiz lights coming closer and
closer, we have been 10 miles ahead of them but we are waiting. Lil Explorer
that has been travelling for 14 days (!) should already be in the Anelghowhat
bay waiting for us. Today we will have to declare ourselves in and then we will
see how much we can accomplish. This last 24 hours have been so much better than
earlier, so much better...
To give yu the right picture, the kids do not
complain one bit, they just do their things and as long as they get food and
water they are happy. They also sleep all nights, always as a matter of fact.
Strange kids, no nightmares, no complications. Yet.
I think the hard part is for those of us that have
to get the food done, the boat sailing etc Thats the challenge. Well the first
part of the journey is most probably gong to fade in memory like a bad flue, who
walks around talking about old flues? Nobody (well somebody).
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