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Just arrived at Portland Road, after a sweet downhill run from Morris Island. We'd spent 36hrs there to wait out a bit of a blow, but all good as could walk Mili around the island - and it's one palm tree, as well as some extensive surrounding drying sand banks... Extra bonus was that no crocs were sighted!

For the historically-inclined, we passed close by Restoration Island just south of here, where Captain Bligh (he of the Bounty) and a few of his loyal crew landed briefly, after their amazing cross-ocean trip following the mutiny, in the small boat they were so generously set away in. This was a fairly brief stop before he too headed away north, eventually landing near Kupang, Indonesia (where we are also headed, but via Darwin). He however did it after 47 odd days in his open boat, equipped with not much more that a sextant and pocket watch. No GPS, chicken tikka masala and One Fifty Lashes beer for him, oh no. It doesn't seem like we do it that tough these days eh?!

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