An Island to Oneself
Southern Princess
John & Irene Hunt
Tue 27 May 2008 22:16
13:18S 163:10W
Suwarrow or Suvorov a lonely atoll in the middle of
the Pacific where Tom Neale spent about 6 years of his life in the 1950's all by
himself an wrote a book of his experiences "An Island to Oneself" great
read!
We arrived at 11:00 today, an easy entry through
the fringing reef passage and are now anchored in the lee of Anchorage Island.
We are 14 yachts in the anchorage and Tom Carter the caretaker from Rarotonga (4
months a year) is going to welcome us ashore with a pot luck dinner. Apparently
there is a working generator so light and power is not a problem.
The last 36 hours has been champagne sailing with
yesterday and the MPS up most of the day and wing on wing last night. Our
weather forecast to Niue is great so the potential problem we had with not much
fuel might have gone away we hope.
Had another fish hit us this morning at such a
speed that it took the lure, trace and a section of 200lb breaking strain
line.
Day or two before the next log.
John & Irene
Chip filleting the Mahi Mahi he
caught yesterday.
Irene baked some for dinner last
night. Beautiful!
Suwarrow (Suvorov) not quite to
oneself!