Aug 12-13, 2014
Logbook – August 12, 2014 (Neiafu to Port Maurelle)
Passage Log Highlights
- 1535 Engines on
- 1539 Depart Neiafu
- 1704 Arrive Port Maurelle
Daily Notes
- Y & J here! Lunch @ Aquarium Cafe, walk to market
- Motor sail to Port Maurelle
- Safe arrival cocktails on shore, chase back by mosquitos
- Ui here
Email to family and friends dated August 12, 2014
Subject: Exodus – Visit from Friends
Our friends from home, Yi and Johnny (who used to do the Catalina charters with us), are here to visit. They arrived yesterday, and after a nice long lunch at The Aquarium Cafe and a quick walk into town for beer and fruit/veg, we motor sailed around the corner about 6 miles to an anchorage called Port Mourelle. There are 4 other boats here, 5 if you count the fact that one is a mega yacht and their “tender” is a full on fishing boat. Our German friends with the two girls that we met in Suwarrow are here, and we did a shore excursion in the evening and brought the girls along with us, so Brenden had some dig in the sand buddies. However, these girls did not just dig, they decorated. In what seemed like just a few minutes they had made a beautiful little shell garden. After we got chased off the beach by the mosquitoes, we seared up the last of our yellow fin for a huge tuna feast, and today we are going to do some cave snorkeling. The sun looks like it might come out for us today, so keep your fingers crossed.
Love and miss you all,
-D.
Logbook – August 13, 2014 (Port Maurelle)
Daily Notes
- Whales in the channel! Chastised by tour boat when Yi tries to swim with them
- Mariners Cove & Swallows Cave
- Fishing – T/S/Y/J – swim w/ whales. J get’s “bitch slapped”
- Rum tasting
Gresham Family Exodus 