Pulau Togong Bayoko, Banggai, Sulawesi
Sea Topaz
Duncan Briggs
Sat 13 Oct 2012 11:27
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02.07.095 S 123.37.811 E
Not a great day today; but you can't win them all.
It has been very overcast and we have had a few showers today. We went out in
the dinghy, but could not find anywhere to snorkel and the only beach we could
find was a small one. We did find some more shells though. There are various
islands around us but they are almost all mangroves.
We left our last anchorage yesterday morning, after
we had some visitors from the village about 3 miles away. We had decided to move
on and not go to the village, which, with hindsight we should have
done.
We had chosen a group of islands on the chart,
hoping to find more places with reefs to snorkel and beaches to explore. We went
past a small island with white beaches and two villages on it, but carried on to
the next group. We finally found one with a beach and not just mangroves. We
ended up anchoring in abut 5 m, in white sand with some grass patches, but more
than a mile away from the shore; plenty of swinging room...
Several canoes motored passed and waved but none
stopped.
Tomorrow we go for another overnight sail further
south.
  One of the villages we sailed
passed
Our anchorage (in
splendid isolation)
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