Somewhere new - At Last! Panakuba Island
The Adventures of the Good Ship Equinox
Cate and Chris Galloway
Fri 25 Sep 2009 09:41
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Position at 1800 AEST 11:087:21S
152:45:91E
Hi All,
We departed Bwagoia this morning at 1000 having
spent the night in the anchorage with five other boats. We were invited over to
Mora (Rob, Lada, Alex and Henry) for drinks last night, and it rained heavily
all night for the first time since Macaky. The Galloway (pat pending) water
collection device proved to be a failure, so back to the drawing
board.
The passage over to Panakuba was hard on the
breeze, but it was relatively calm so we had a pleasant trip. We caught a huge
green jobfish which was (of course) a bit bigger than the one Allan caught at
Panasia, and it is now doing good service providing dinner for three families.
On arrival we were visited by Simeon, and we traded for a local carving; he also
wanted the fish head and skeleton and did an excellent job of filleting the fish
for us. Two of the 70cm long fillets we gave to Col, Bev and Alex off Midnight
Blue, who visited for sundowners this evening. The Panapompom sparkling ale is
going down too well...
For the next couplle of days we will remain here
just getting ahead of school and maintenance; we lok forward to hearing from you
all,
TTFN
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