We spent a gloriously peaceful
night. There were few other boats nearby and they all quietened down at quite a
civilised hour.
We had checked the weather
forecasts, and as usual, they seemed to be at odds with one another. We decided
to heed the most pessimistic, which said that the wind would strengthen during
the morning and then start to die away after 1:00. It meant that we could have a
leisurely start, before we had to prepare to leave. As we sat enjoying our mid-morning
coffee, I was thinking that we were probably being too cautious, as we could
feel very little. However, soon after this the fresh breeze kicked in and our decision
was justified. In most other
circumstances we would not have worried too much, but our route today took us
through a very narrow and shallow channel between two islands. We didn’t want
to have a lot of wind as we negotiated it.
We were able to get the jib set fairly quickly, and as we were going to be mostly downwind, and for fairly short distances, we kept it at that. There were plenty of other boats around, but we managed to negotiate our way around them easily enough.
We had the sail down and were motoring by the time we arrived at the narrow channel. This was only about 100 metres long, and maybe 30 metres wide. Just before our turn to pass through, two catamarans had come the other way and it looked for all the world as if they were trying to go side by side through. After being in 60 – 70 metres of depth under the keel, we read 1.9 as we passed through the channel, it keeps you concentrating when you can see jagged rocks just few metres away.
We carried on and found a mooring buoy in the Telascica Nature Park. There are a series of National Parks on the islands here. This one is of a slightly lower status, but every bit as beautiful. As we sat having a very late lunch after we had moored, we saw a large bird hovering nearby. Later we received the Guide Book from the Rangers who came to check that we had paid the entrance fee. The book stated that there were Eleonora Hawks in the park, and we are sure that this is what we had seen.
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Steve (and Tricia)
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