22 49N 74 21W

Apart from the sand flies we had a restful night in
Atwood after the exercise entailed in recovering the dinghy and Geoff. After
breakfast Anita and John went ashore for a long walk along the beach to another
cove which initially looked like a river. On the rocks opposite us were a
number of large Conch shells which we could not readily identify from a
distance. So, after the walk back and a swim we took the dinghy around to have
a look. Someone must have placed them on the rocks but it was too shallow for
us to get in and investigate further. We had an early lunch and had just
finished when the wind backed 180 degrees so it was blowing directly into the
cove and quickly increased to 25 knots. An emergency departure was called for
before we were blown up on the beach. All went smoothly apart from us not being
able to raise the dinghy which we subsequently had to tow through some medium
rough seas for 30 miles until we turned the corner on |