VS arrived safely at uninhabited Middle Island, Archipelago of the Recherche, Western Australia, at 1900 last night, in strong winds and a thunderstorm. 100% grey skies this morning.

A run ashore this morning, to see the sealions and up the local hill, then off to the mainland for this evening. 60nm to Esperance (l’Esperance and La Recherche were the two ships of Baudin who explored along here, and Tasmania, in the late eighteenth century).