In Port Boise
We arrived in Port Boise, near the bottom tip of the main island, mid afternoon yesterday. It was a good trip, with frequent showers but many whales spouting and splashing- as well as the usual dolphins. Winds were light but we sailed along quite fast and are in a beautifully protected section of this Bay, which is quite isolated. We had intended to leave for Mare, one of the Loyalty ISlands at 0200 but the constant rain deterred us and we are now leaving 0200 Wednesday morning with a hopeful arrival off Beach Pede on Mare in the mid afternoon.
Today, we have enjoyed our 36th wedding anniversary, sipping French Champagne and nibbling biscuits and cheese. Also cleaned off the rubber ducky after over a month in the water and fixed a broken wire to the compass light.
We need a fish and yesterday, hooked one but it broke off the hooks and got away. So, today we have replaced the remainms of the hooks with stronger and bigger stainless steel hooks procured in Coffs Harbour.
Fishing locally off the boat has only attrected a couple of one metre sharks in which we are not interested.
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Dave & Penny
