[password] bulletYIT
[position] 20 16.6 S 174 48.2 w
[weather] 19 kts from 95t , 30%cloud cover
[speed] 0 kts
[heading] 108m

[status] Spent yesterday afternoon and this morning at Kelefesia island, managed to get some mud maps off another yacht. What a lovely place white sand and great coral all round only one other yacht there. A really nice couple live on the island collecting and drying white snapper and smoking octopus, both being shipped to nuku'alofa markets. The swell got up over last night, so this morning the entrance was a maze of breaking waves about three meters high and blind rollers, so we strapped Maya into her cockpit car seat and donned life jackets locked the boat up and went for it. I cut the corner a little to close but managed to get out in between sets. Bit of luck,. Sailed west to clear the reef which seemed to extend another 3 miles further than my chart indicated, so starting to understand why many people don't visit some less charted areas of the Haapai

We are now anchored up at Nomuka, will venture ashore tomorrow to do some more trading of engine oil for coconut water! Maya seems to love that stuff.

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