It was quite a night with a big lightening storm passing over, which is always unnerving sitting on water. Rowan had a very bad night as he worried about the anchor, but luckily we didn’t budge. We were very surprised to come upstairs for our early cup of tea and find the big National Geographic cruise liner had come in during the early dark hours. They must have had a very squeaky bum time coming through the pass as it is only 13m deep and I shouldn’t think there is a lot of room for error. They ferried people to the beach back and forth, mainly in the rain poor things. I suspect they were meant to dive the pass, but in these conditions it was not possible. They left mid afternoon without us even noticing!
Cain offered to dive down on the anchor with tanks and sort it out. He is a very keen diver and has all his own gear and a compressor. They came over in the morning, Quinn came on board but did not like seeing Cain go off in the water. We had to get the engines on and move forward to get the tension off the anchor, which allowed Cain to get it off the coral head and embed it in a sandy area. All quite a performance in the wind and rain but just as well to get it sorted as we plan to leave tomorrow morning with the slack tide at 9am. Cain invited us for pizzas in the evening, so we sent him off with toppings of chorizo, artichokes, anchovies and cheese.
It was a cloudy day and cooler as various squalls came over with big dark clouds and lots of rumbling thunder, plus a few downpours. We did hide all our electronic gadgets in the microwave (our Faraday cage!) when we thought the lightening was getting closer and Rowan switched off all the electrics. We have heard of too many catamarans having all their electrics fried. My energy levels definitely increase in the cooler weather and I’m busy repairing, darning and patching all the fender socks that took a beating in Colombia in the marina. The socks just help prevent the plastic fenders chaffing on the boat. The socks are double thick jersey, big, dirty and smelly, so much easier to deal with in the cooler weather!
We had very good pizzas on Spirit of Argo in the evening, with Quinn fully involved. Cain had given Quinn the anchovy oil, which gave him a very fishy breath! I made a coleslaw with the last of our cabbage and carrots and coconut shavings, plus a fruit salad with some tinned litchis and coconut yoghurt. I’m determined to use our coconuts! We didn’t hang about too much as squalls kept coming by, we made it home almost dry.
We were surprised to come upstairs and find the National Geographic cruiser had snuck in in the early hours
Sunshine
Rain
We can only just see Spirit of Argo
Stormy, thundery weather
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