password]chance62
[position]23 38.925S 178 53.551W
[weather]NE 5k, no swell inside reef, cloud clearing, baro 1021, temperatures a little cooler.
[speed]0
[heading]0
[status]Minerva stopover. The entry yesterday was made easy with our chart plotter and good visibility. We're anchored in 12m over sand, on the SE corner with currently 4 other boats. We're getting used to our view of surrounding reef and no land! The surf can be heard constantly pounding on the outside of the reef. We've been told that Tongans have been over here and taken most of the crays. However a neighbour speared a big coral trout at the entrance and shared it around. We took the dinghy over to the reef just after low tide and water was streaming across it into the lagoon like a river. It's fun walking on it and then a snorkel back to the boat across 2m of sand and rocks with a little coral, tropical fish, heaps of clams and bigger fish over a bigger rocks in deeper water. Visibility is A1. Doug saw a reef shark under the boat. Our neighbour reported tiger sharks at the entrance. Waiting until the big H in the Tasman spreads N onto NZ. ETD maybe the weekend. All rest
ed and well onboard.[END]