Filling our days with swimming in the lagoon and cycling around the island, but all this comes to a grinding halt when a new boat appears on the horizon. Its all hands on deck ready to help them. One of us zooms out of the lagoon through the pass and outside the reef where the waiting boat is nervously consulting tide tables, saying prayers and generally crossing their fingers and toes. We'll plough back into the pass with them clutching a boat hook marked with the depth of their boat and give them a tour of the low spots in the pass; let them see the beast for themselves. Then its the same tour of the anchorage picking out a spot. Yesterday the new boat same through the pass OK, but then whilst anchoring bow and stern, the bow anchor broke free and with the 5 knot current and 20 knot breeze, the boat went sideways into its neighbour, (both inches from a reef). We zoomed over with the dinghy and spent several hours throwing out as many anchors as possible then winching both boats to safety....phew all ended well.
Tonight we go ashore to watch the local fire dancers.
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