Here's Ann checking out the hull

The bow. This was a fishing boat that went up on the reef and sunk

The foredeck. You can see the anchor windlass

Position: 20 degrees, 02 minutes south; 174 degrees, 42 minutes west

We had a fun this morning snorkeling a wreck on the reef about ½ mile from where we were anchored. It was a Korean fishing boat-about 90 feet long and looked like it had been in the water for a couple years or so. We had fun taking turns swimming across the deck and looking into the hold. Lots of fish are now using it as an artificial reef. It’s certainly a sobering experienced to see what happens when you make a mistake out here and there are quite a few wrecks on the reefs. There’re no second chances. It took a little effort to get up the momentum to jump in the water so early in the morning, but we had to move on to the next island and as we were motoring back to Charisma we both commented that while we were ambivalent about going, it turned out to be a lot of fun.

Our sail to the next island took a couple hours in 15-20 knots on a beam reach. Just the big jib, so very easy and fun. We’re now at O’ua. You have to love those multi-vowel names.

This is a cool spot. We’re anchored over sand and coral in about 25 feet. There is a reef around us that extends 270 degrees and is a mile across except for a couple of little islets upwind of us. There’s nothing else here, so it feels a bit like we’re floating on air. On the way in we got a nice show from some spinner dolphins. Wow, makes me dizzy just thinking about them.

I took a nice long nap this afternoon and Ann is making cinnamon rolls for tomorrow morning. I say “making” because she’s been working on them for a couple hours now. They have to rise a couple times and then you make them into rolls, so there’s a lot of work involved. For my part, I’m cooking some of our Mahi tonight with a green curry sauce-maybe with mangoes, I’m not sure yet. All over rice.

So there you are. It was a wreck of a day and we had fun!