Position: Still in Daniel’s Bay

A little rain and a phenomenal rainbow!

No big hikes today. No change in location. Just chillin’ in Daniel’s Bay. Sometimes we just stay aboard and enjoy the beautiful bay. Today was one of those days, kind of. Bob spent the morning doing miscellaneous small chores like fixing the flag pole holder so we can proudly fly our American flag and then fixing some wobbly connections on the solar panels. The kind of things that bug you as you sail but get forgotten when the anchor goes down. I spent the day getting caught up on laundry. It never gets faster or easier. Always a chore but I love to bring it in off of the lifelines and having it smell fresh! I don’t even mind folding it and putting it away because it means the job is done! Kills me that it took 4 hours to do! And to finish my day I read a book about James Michener’s South Pacific by Stephen May. It is so fun to know that either we are on our way there or we are currently in the locations that are being described. And when I chose to, I could look up and inhale this beautiful bay! And as an added treat I could smell Bob preparing dinner early – he made Chicken Curry with fresh coconut milk. Since I learned how to make coconut milk back at Fatu Hiva I was able to explain it to Bob. Using cheese cloth and the fresh coconut we got yesterday (and an oyster shucker to get the coconut out and grated) Bob made his own coconut milk to put in the curry. (It is currently reheating on the stove so I am only assuming that the divine smell was an accurate indication of the quality of meal.) So it was a quite productive day. One interesting moment came when the catamaran named Seque “went for a walk about”. Now my friends know that I find nothing unusual with cats that go for walks as every time in Pleasant Hill that I took my dog, Grover, for a walk, one of my cats, Tiger, insisted on coming with. So a cat on a walk seems normal. Only this one was a very large catamaran, about 60 feet long and 30,000 lbs, whose anchor started dragging while the occupants were hiking to the waterfall. Luckily someone in the anchorage noticed and all hands were actively putting down another anchor for the wandering boat until the owners returned. No damage done. The boat behind them, Lightspeed – also a catamaran, moved to be in front of the wandering cat. Too bad Seque later relocated themselves and now are anchored in front of us. Hopefully they did a better job of anchoring this time so we can have a peaceful night.