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Nighttime Squalls in Sandal Baie - Lifou
Had a bit of a crazy night; a flat calm evening and early part of the night seemed all set to continue as we took it easy yesterday (again) recovering from flu, but around 0200 all changed dramatically as the wind rose to over 25kt, lightening endlessly flood lit the entire 12nm bay, blinding your eyes even through closed lids. The thunder was almost loud enough to drown out the cacophony of our cupboards as Roxi heaved and lurched in the waves. The squall went on for hours, all made more surreal by us both having a fever. I looked behind and the dinghy, on a long line, was rising higher than the self steering gear on the crazy waves, Si went to check the anchor and should really have been clipped on with the violent rolling. It all calmed down as the sun rose until the quiet cupboards allowed for a spot of power napping - and as the weather is currently calm and sunny it's like we had a bad joint dream.
Unfortunately we'd got very used to the accuracy of the charts in the main New Cal lagoon, so here where the plotter shows us anchored on the cliffs by the church and friends hit a reef whilst entering in daylight we were most reluctant to move and preferred to just hold tight.

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