Wednesday 14th July
Today we had another loss. We awoke to a foggy morning and low cloud cover. We thought we would check out the other side of the island so we hauled anchor and motored to the southern side. There was a light wind and a small swell coming in the southern bay. We dropped the anchor and drifted back till the anchor dug in. We could see bommies off the back of us on each side so we sent our depth sounder (Lydia) off to scout the area. Yes we were too close. Both bommies were only 2 meters below the water. Lydia had a quick look around and thinks its a good place to snorkel.
We had to haul anchor and reset it further away from the bommies or return to the northern bay. That’s when we saw Casana and Serenade heading to Goldsmith and the northern bay, so we decided to head back that way too. Tomorrow the wind should be changing to northeast so we are looking at going back to the southern bay then.
Safely anchored on the north side we had lunch on the foredeck in the sun. Lydia and Andrew thought they had a way of fixing the problem with the dinghy wheels. They took the wheels apart and while shaving a little off the nylon bush, it got dropped and went over the side.
Lydia was in the water in an insant but couldnt stay down long enough to search in the 7m of water. The Huka dive gear came out and Lydia spent 20 minutes in search and rescue mode, but couldnt find it.
We had a subdued afternoon, it was drizzling just enough that it wouldn’t have been pleasant going ashore. Lydia is making chicken peach curry for dinner.
