Sometimes you just feel the need to get out of the big city of Majuro and feel like you’re cruising again. So, we joined the Meico Beach Yacht Club in order to use their moorings in a couple other places in the atoll. Our first weekend getaway was out to the islet of Eneko (labeled Enigu on Open CPN charts) and the main reason for heading out there was to make water. Long gone were the days near the equator when we could count on periodic downpours to fill our water tanks, so we had to rely on our watermaker once again. So, we headed out to Eneko to make water near inlets in the reef on a rising tide. It turned out that we were unknowingly on the same page as True Blue V and we converged on the moorings at Eneko and ended up having a couple of fun days out there together.
Eneko is about 6 miles from Majuro back towards the pass. There are 3 moorings there, but one of them was taken up by a half sunken boat, which somehow seemed kind of appropriate. While we were there, Tim went out Spearfishing outside the pass with some local guys, and he came back with a *monster* dogtooth tuna, which filled our freezer and fed the anchorage once we got back to Majuro.
Exodus, True Blue V, and a half sunken boat on the moorings at Eneko
A huge dogtooth tuna speared near the pass in Majuro
The yacht club also has 5 or 6 moorings at Anemomet, which is closer to Majuro than Eneko. We headed out there a couple times to make water or escape Majuro, and right underneath where we were moored were the wrecks of an airplane and a helicopter. The airplane is quite shallow, very easy to snorkel. From the first two moorings closest to the little dock, we were able to get internet from the boat using the bullet (Tim set the mac address of the bullet to be his iPad in order to access NTA Wi-Fi).
Underwater exploration at Anemomet
Being February and all, we ended up spending my 39th birthday in Majuro, and so we took a break from the boat chores and headed out to Anemomet to celebrate. And let me tell you, even given the fact that old age is setting in, there was still plenty of fun to be had. We ate birthday blueberry pancakes, played card games, did “family jump off the bow”, had steaks and mashed potatoes for dinner, and later in the evening we drank wine and ate apple crumble with our friends on s/v Free Spirit. Speaking of wine… I had bought a bottle of Kendall Jackson chardonnay in Majuro thinking that it would be a fun birthday game to do a taste test between my old friend California chardonnay and my new acquaintance New Zealand Chardonnay. It turned out to be no contest, because the Kendall Jackson that I bought in Majuro was rancid. I was sad for about two seconds and then I did some bilge diving and found some Robert Mondavi Cabernet, one of the few bottles still with us from California, and, oh my god, it was so good I almost cried.
Bad wine, good wine on my birthday
Enecko and Anemomet weekend getaways
Gresham Family Exodus 