It was stiflingly hot as there was no breeze at all. Rowan went for an early long snorkel with Kruno over the reef and round the island. I would not enjoy going over such shallow water, or an early Sunday morning out of bed. Down in our hull with our Dyson fan is one of the coolest places to be on days like this!
Later in the morning I went for a snorkel with Rowan around the coral here, some good pieces but a lot of damaged coral too. The water is 31 degrees, almost unpleasantly hot. We went to the edge of the area where we are which has a deep drop off at the pass to go out to sea. Rowan jumped in but it was a strong current with the tide rushing out and not clear water, we will do it again tomorrow morning on an incoming tide.
Kruno and Anthony on Lella invited us over at 2pm for pumpkin soup and some smoked fish that the island caretaker had smoked. It really is too hot to eat at that time of day, but guess Kruno was just trying to be sociable, he asked us to bring chilli, luckily we still had some of Dani’s Hungarian paprika. The soup had some fiery chillis in it but was very good. The Croatians like hot spicy food. Poor Kruno I don’t think there were many takers of the fish, between the vegetarians and us not wanting to eat reef fish because of ciguatera poisoning. Everyone thinks a little bit of reef fish wont hurt, but the problem is it is an accumulative poison, so lots of little tastes add up to quite a lot.
Rowan and I were so hot, in the late afternoon we went and read our Sunday papers on the beach in the deep shade of the trees. So much bird life here, a very smart raptor, my Merlin app thinks it is a Goshawk, plus some lovely crimson parrots flying over us. It really is an idyllic anchorage, such a lovely island too. We are having a very relaxed social time which is fun. Claudette the South African solo sailor on Profasea has been lucky with her crew, an American couple from Oregon who she is very pleased with, it must be a huge relief to her.
The four boats in amongst the bommies, Profasea in front of us, Alma Feroz behind us and Lella to the left of us.
Calm, calm waters
Big threatening cloud behind Lella
Amazing sunset
Carey, crew on Profasea took a couple of great photos of us at sunset
My pic of the full moon coming up over our little island
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