Today has been...well...just one of those days. First we had to move our boat to a less rough spot for the night which still left us rocking and rolling throughout. Namena Island is a small dot in the middle of an ocean level reef, so when the wind gets up and the waves start rolling there isn't much shelter. The weather forecaster seems to be off by a day with his predictions. So that was last night, the set up for today. We all wake at dawn, probably because we weren't asleep anyway. Before we can even have a cup of coffee to clear our heads, the first problem is discovered, the railing has torn off of the whaler. Usual practise is to tie the whaler lengthwise along the swim grid when it is not resting atop the big boat, kind of like our own little docking system. I guess the poor little Dear was just having a really wild ride last night and something had to give. $$$$$$$$ Well we are out of here! Enough of this. O.K. I'll put fuel into the day tank and the wing tank (so we have stuff for the engines to work on). Remember, I haven't had coffee yet...Is that really an excuse? Somehow, I make the error (yes, me)of not shutting the wing tank valve off as I move on to fill the day tank and overrun the diesel all over the raw teak decks. AAAAAHH!!!!@#$*&%@%**! Now we are scrubbing decks and pulling the anchor and trying to control the whaler off of the back deck..What a ZOO. We were planning to move back to Makogai island today anyway so our route is all in place. As we poke our nose around the edge of Namena, we discover that we have been in the "smooth stuff".
A bumpy three hours later we have our anchor set in the bay a Makogai and I can have my coffee for today as I sit and complain to the world in general about crappy weather.
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