Poor Rowan was up at 5am for his Board call, while I slumbered away! We have definitely decided to stay another night, to wait for things to calm down a bit before departure. After breakfast we headed to the Gendarmerie to get our passports stamped and to pick up our exit papers. We were slightly concerned that they might query our long departed crew but luckily all the paper work was accepted, we were stamped out, and have 24 hours to leave! As we left, the Aussie skipper and SA partner/crew came in. They are departing today, he was very gung-ho about leaving in this weather, she did not look as comfortable!
Dark grey clouds and rain all day
We had a few last minute purchases for the trip, mainly tomatoes and fruit, which are eye-wateringly expensive, $10 for 6 tomatoes! We got back to the boat dry before a huge downpour, we timed our trip impeccably. Afternoon we pootled about getting ready for tomorrow’s passage – cooked a chicken in the slow cooker, made some yoghurt, deflated the boards, put stuff away etc
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