Day 4 Recovery

Not much stood between the adversity of the night before and the relief of awaking in a warm sleeping bag. The low tide and what we had 'surfed' over last night was also a surprise. A near full moon meant large tides and our late arrival coincided with the high thankfully

          

 

Today needed to be a recovery day. Forecasts received on the Sat phone were not favorable so we would hike to the lighthouse after breakfast and do all our SARwatch and social calls. The hike was only about 3km, however it was through long tussock grass and made for hard work. The view was amazing. On return we recharged (in priority) Sat phone, Suunto watch, VHF radio, iphone (telstra), iphone (Optus), gopro, and finally the ipad for Navionics updates

Carlo was much better. A good feed, midday snooze, reorganizing and reflection on the events the day before had us in good spirits. We kayaked to the other side of the bay to visit the remains of the historic hut that was unfortunately burnt down 12mths ago. A spring with fresh water we had read about in other blogs was also found 100mtr to the south. Should we relocate? It was a better camp site, so we paddled back but concluded our energy was better conserved. 

                              

The next day forecast was good. Light headwinds, seas 1-1.5mtr and consistent for the day. Our arrival at Deal Is was on the slack tide which meant the current in Murrays pass would be in our favor. This was important as the pass was treaturous in the wrong conditions. Our ETD was 8am and we expected a 6hr crossing in these conditions

              

Forgot to start the watch at the start!

Michael