Noumea (NC)-Bundaberg (OZ) : 8 days on 260° compass!

I've just written a huge french version of our adventures, and I'm running out of

time, so you guys will have the light version...unless you want to bush up on your

french...;-)

Leaving Noumea took 4 days, as we did a first start, got a motor failure, came

back to Noumea, then got stuck because the tradewinds let us down.
We finally got underway on 13th september. Good or bad luck? Just in case, we

made an offering to Maui, Poseidon, Neptune and the others, by trowing salt,

Tequila and lemon over board...just so that the Gods remember the name of our boat

for further references...

The first 3 days were a little rough with 4m swells...which seemed VERY rough to

our unacustomed stomacs...
Between that and the fact that the boat was jerking wildely, we really spent 3

days wondering what was the fun of all this???

We got the answer with the night of the 3rd day. The sea calmed down and our

stomacs too...Tequila was all sails up in a nice wind, we could cook good food and

plunge into our supplies of wine and chocolate.

All sails up, the wind, the sea, the sun : shear well being!!!

The nights were dotted with stars and every watch was a festival of shooting

stars.

Typical evening on board Tequila : sunset, a glass of red wine and the sound of the captain's guitar

Approaching Australia, we saw dolphins, globicephales, whale 3 or 4 times a day.

Hervey Bay and its approach boast the lushest sea life we've ever seen.
Which doesn't mean that we caught any fish. We tried all the lures we had, and a

part from 1 rapala that got bite away overnight the 2nd night, the only fish we

saw in our plate for 8 days was canned tuna!!!

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